唐

唐 (radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈中口 (ILR), four-corner 0026₇, composition ⿸广⿱肀口)

• 傏 塘 搪 嵣 溏 瑭 榶 膅 煻 禟 磄 瞊 螗 糖 赯 醣 鎕 餹 鄌 鶶 蓎 篖

• KangXi: page 192, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3709
• Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 633, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5510

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡl'aːŋ) : phonetic 庚 (OC *kraːŋ) + semantic 口 (“mouth”) – to exaggerate, to boast. 唐 and 庚 were near-homophones in Old Chinese.

Either related to 途 (OC *l'aː) (Wang Li, 1982) or from Austroasiatic, compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *glɔɔŋ, whence Mon ဂၠံၚ်, Kensiu gəlɔŋ, Kuy khlù:aŋ (Schuessler, 2007)

唐

1. ^† to exaggerate; to boast
2. ^† exaggerative; boastful
3. ^† vast; wide; extensive
4. ^† road inside temple
5. ^† in vain; to no avail
6. 50th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "vastness, emptiness, pointlessness" (𝌷)
7. (～朝) Tang Dynasty
8. (figuratively) China
9. A surname​.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Tang dynasty
2. China, Chinese, Sino-
3. foreign
4. baseless, bogus
5. abrupt, sudden

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Tō-on: たん (tan)
• Sō-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: から (kara, 唐, Jōyō); もろこし (morokoshi, 唐)
• Nanori: かろ (karo)

/tau/ → /tɔː/ → /toː/

From Middle Chinese 唐 (MC dɑŋ).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) と​ー [tóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [to̞ː]

唐 (hiragana とう, rōmaji tō, historical hiragana たう)

1. foreign lands in general

• 唐 (とう)へ投 (な)げ銀 (がね) (tō e nage-gane)

唐 (hiragana とう, rōmaji Tō, historical hiragana たう)

1. (historical) name of various Chinese dynasties:
   1. the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE)
   2. the 後唐 (Kōtō, “Later Tang”) (923-937 CE)
   3. the 後唐 (Nantō, “Southern Tang”) (937–976 CE)
2. (dated) China in general

From Japanese 伽羅, a proper name from ancient Korean Peninsula.

Originally meant "China" during the Tang dynasty and "elements imported from China", then later expanded to mean "foreign lands in general" and "elements imported from foreign lands".

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ら [káꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾa̠]

唐 (hiragana から, rōmaji kara-)

1. element in compounds, referring to things imported from China or from other foreign lands

   漢詩 (からうた)、唐 (から)歌 (うた)、唐 (から)揚 (あ)げ、漢音 (からごえ)

   karauta, karauta, karaage, karagoe

   Chinese-style poetry (as opposed to formal waka Japanese-style poetry), Chinese-style poetry, deep-fried chicken or fish (a style introduced by Europeans in the 1600s), "Chinese voice" → the kan'on or Chinese-derived reading for a character

唐 (hiragana から, rōmaji kara)

1. foreign lands in general
2. Short for 唐織り (karaori): silk fabrics imported from China; an exquisitely-embroidered woman's kimono; a costume made in the karaori style used in Noh theater

唐 (hiragana から, rōmaji Kara)

1. (formal, dated) the name of China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE}

• 唐 (から)人 (ひと) (Kara hito), 唐 (から)人 (びと) (Kara-bito, “a Chinese or Korean person; a foreigner from China or Korea”)

• 漢 (から) (Kara, usually "China in the Han dynasty")
• 韓 (から) (Kara, usually "Korea")
• 加 (か)羅 (ら), 伽 (か)羅 (ら), 迦 (か)羅 (ら) (Kara, “the Gaya confederacy”, original derivation)
• 呉 (くれ) (Kure, “China during the Wu dynasty”)

⟨mo₂ro₂ ko₁si⟩ → ⟨moro₂ko₁si⟩ → */morəkosi/ → /morokoɕi/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Man'yōshū (c. 753 CE).

Originally a compound of 諸 (moro-, prefix meaning "many") + 越 (koshi), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of 越す (kosu, “to cross (over)”),[2] by reinterpretation of kun-reading 越 (koshi) from on-reading of 越 (Etsu, “(state of) Yue”).[3]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) もろこし [mòrókóshí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mo̞ɾo̞ko̞ɕi]

• 唐土

唐 (hiragana もろこし, rōmaji morokoshi)

1. (archaic) any objects imported from China

• 唐 (もろこし)黍 (きび) (morokoshi kibi), 唐黍 (モロコシ) (morokoshi)

唐 (hiragana もろこし, rōmaji Morokoshi)

1. (archaic) the name of China by the ancient Japanese people

   Synonym: 唐土 (Tōdo)

唐 • (dang) (hangeul 당, McCune–Reischauer tang)

1. Tang dynasty
2. Chinese

唐

• Nonnative: とー (tō)

• IPA^(key): /toː/

唐 (hiragana とー, romaji tō)

1. China

唐 (Đường)

1. Tang dynasty
2. Chinese