銅
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銅
- tóng (tong²) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
- ㄊㄨㄥˊ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
- tong² Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
- tung⁴ Cantonese, Jyutping
- tung² Gan, Wiktionary specific
- thùng Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
- tung² Hakka, 梅縣, 客家話拼音
- tung¹ Jin, Wiktionary specific
- dè̤ng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
- tông Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
- tâng Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
- dang⁵ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
- ⁶don Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
- dong² Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
- tóng Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
- tóng Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
- tʻung² Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
- túng Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
- torng Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
- тун Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
- /tʰʊŋ³⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
- tung Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
- /tʰoŋ²¹/ Mandarin, Chengdu, IPA
- tung⁴ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
- tùhng Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
Where it comes from
形聲漢字（上古 *doːŋ）：意符 金 (“金屬”) + 聲符 同 (上古 *doːŋ) 。
因為金屬名稱基本上和顏色有關，所以可能與彤 (上古 *l'uːŋ, “紅色”)相關聯（Schuessler, 2007）。
部分東南亞語言中表示「銅」的字帶有詞首子音 l-（Sagart, 1999），如壯語 luengz、布依語 luangz、布努語 loŋ²，可能是早期自漢語借入。
藏語 དོང་ཙེ (dong tse，“中國銅錢”)則是借自漢語 銅子／铜子 (tóngzi)。
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title = {銅},
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