噸

See also: 吨

噸	U+5678, 噸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5678

← 噷
[U+5677]

CJK Unified Ideographs

噹 →
[U+5679]

Translingual

Han character

噸 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口心山金 (RPUC), four-corner 6108₆, composition ⿰口頓)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 211, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4429
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 689, character 10
Unihan data for U+5678

Chinese

trad.		噸
simp.		吨^*

Etymology

Borrowed from English ton. For Taiwanese Hokkien 噸 / 吨 (tòng), borrowed from Japanese トン (ton), also from English ton.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dūn, dùn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣ, ㄉㄨㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): deon¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tun / tún
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dong⁴ / duong⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tan / tun / tùn / tòng
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ten

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dun
  - Wade–Giles: tun¹
  - Yale: dwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duen
  - Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
  - Wade–Giles: tun⁴
  - Yale: dwùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
  - Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: deon¹
  - Yale: dēun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: doen¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dên¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tun / tún
  - Hakka Romanization System: dun / dun^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dun⁴ / dun³
  - Sinological IPA: /tun⁵⁵/, /tun³¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dong⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: deo̍ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔŋ⁴²/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: duong⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuoŋ⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan
  - Tâi-lô: tan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dafn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tun
  - Tâi-lô: tun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dwn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tun³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùn
  - Tâi-lô: tùn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: duxn
  - IPA (Taipei): /tun¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tun²¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tòng
  - Tâi-lô: tòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doxng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ¹¹/

Note:

tan - colloquial;
tun - literary.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹ten
  - MiniDict: ten^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ten
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tən⁵³/

Definitions

噸

Classifier for metric ton.
Classifier for ton; tonne.
Classifier for registered ton.

Compounds

公噸 / 公吨 (gōngdūn)
呫噸 / 呫吨 (zhāndūn)
噸位 / 吨位 (dūnwèi)
噸公里
噸數 / 吨数 (dūnshù)
噸海里
淨噸位 / 净吨位
短噸 / 短吨 (duǎndūn)
美噸 / 美吨 (měidūn)
英噸 / 英吨 (yīngdūn)
長噸 / 长吨 (chángdūn)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “吨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 57.

Japanese

Kanji

噸

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): とん (ton)
Kun: とん (ton)

Etymology

Ateji, for English ton.

Noun

噸(とん) or 噸(トン) • (ton)

トン: ton

Related terms

屯(トン) (ton, “(metric) ton”)

Korean

Hanja

噸 • (ton) (hangeul 톤, McCune–Reischauer t'on)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噸: Hán Nôm readings: đốn

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References

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