洞庭

Chinese

		cave; hole	court; courtyard
simp. and trad. (洞庭)		洞	庭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòngtíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄊㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶ ting⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòngtíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòngtíng
    • Wade–Giles: tung⁴-tʻing²
    • Yale: dùng-tíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donqtyng
    • Palladius: дунтин (duntin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹ tʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung⁶ ting⁴
    • Yale: duhng tìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶ ting⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung⁶ ting⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²² tʰɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: duwngH deng

Rime
Character	洞	庭
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	徒弄切	特丁切
Baxter	duwngH	deng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋH/	/deŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋH/	/deŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋH/	/dɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋH/	/dɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/duŋH/	/deŋ/
Wang Li	/duŋH/	/dieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuŋH/	/dʱieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dòng	tíng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dung6	ting4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋs  l'eːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	洞	庭
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	12469	12421
Phonetic component	同	廷
Rime group	東	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	洞	庭
Old Chinese	/*doːŋs/	/*l'eːŋ/

Noun

洞庭

1. (Classical) spacious courtyard

Proper noun

洞庭

2. (～湖) Lake Dongting (a lake northeastern Hunan, China)
3. (～社區) Dongting (a community of Yiyuan, Jiang'an district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)