See also:
U+515A, 党
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-515A

[U+5159]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+515B]

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese
Simplified
Traditional 党/

Han character

(Kangxi radical 10, 儿+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火月口竹山 (FBRHU), four-corner 90216, composition 𫩠 or )

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 125, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 273, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+515A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic (human).

Besides its original senses, it is used as a simplified substitute for the character .

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“community; fellow community member; gang; faction; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. a surname
      ―  Dǎngjiā Cūn  ―  Dangjia Village
  2. used in 党項 (Dǎngxiàng)

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. Mostly used in (タン)(グート) (tangūto, Tangut)

Readings

  • Go-on: とう (, Jōyō)たう (tau, historical)
  • Kan-on: とう (, Jōyō)たう (tau, historical)

Usage notes

Rare as an original character, and even more rarely used with its original reading.

Kanji

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. political party

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: 6
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

(とう) • (

  1. political party

Suffix

(とう) • (-tō

  1. political party

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
たむら
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Noun

(たむら) • (tamura

  1. alternative form of

References

  • 諸橋轍次 (Morohashi Tetsuji), chief ed. 大漢和辞典 (Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, “Comprehensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary”). 13 vols. 1955–1960. Revised and enlarged ed. 1984–1986. Tokyo: Taishukan.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đảng, đoảng

Noun

  1. alternative form of (chữ Hán form of đảng ((politics) a political party))