堂

堂 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月口土 (FBRG), four-corner 9010₄, composition ⿱𫩠土)

• 隚 摚 嘡 漟 憆 樘 膛 瞠 鏜 (镗) 螳 糛 蹚 饄 鞺 鼞 闛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 231, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5207
• Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 452, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5802

Historical forms of the character 堂
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

堂

1. main room of a house
2. (historical) courtroom in a yamen
3. room or building for a specific purpose; hall; chamber

   教堂  ―  jiàotáng  ―  church

   祠堂  ―  cítáng  ―  ancestral hall

4. hall (used in the name of halls, sometimes specifying lineage)

   江夏堂  ―  Jiāngxià Táng  ―  Jiangxia Hall (an ancestral hall of the surname Huang)

5. shop; store (in traditional store names)

   同仁堂  ―  Tóngrén Táng  ―  Tong Ren Tang

   位元堂 [Cantonese]  ―  wai⁶ jyun⁴ tong^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  Wai Yuen Tong

6. (dialectal) class; lesson

   上堂 [Cantonese]  ―  soeng⁵ tong⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to attend class

   數學堂／数学堂 [Cantonese]  ―  sou³ hok⁶ tong⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  maths lesson

   八半堂 [Cantonese]  ―  baat³ bun³ tong⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  8:30 am class

7. of the same paternal grandfather or great-grandfather
8. (honorific) mother
9. Classifier for sets of furniture.

   一堂家具  ―  yī táng jiājù  ―  a set of furniture

10. Classifier for classes or lessons.

    一堂課／一堂课  ―  yī táng kè  ―  a lesson

    一堂道  ―  yī táng dào  ―  a sermon

11. Classifier for court sessions.
12. Classifier for scenes or murals.
13. (Cantonese) Classifier for eyebrows.
14. (Cantonese) Classifier for tools that are hung when in use.

    一堂梯 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ tong⁴ tai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  a ladder

    • 1874, N. B. Dennys, A Handbook of the Canton Vernacular of the Chinese Language, London: Trübner & Co., page 79:

      我要買堂蚊帳 [Cantonese, trad.]
      我要买堂蚊帐 [Cantonese, simp.]

      ngo⁵ jiu³ maai⁵ tong⁴ man^4-1 zoeng³ [Jyutping]

      I must buy a mosquito curtain

15. a surname

• “堂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: どう (dō, Jōyō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: たかどの (takadono, 堂); すまい (sumai)

• 食堂(しょくどう) (shokudō, “cafeteria, dining room”)

堂(どう) • (dō) 

1. temple
2. shrine
3. hall

堂(どう) • (dō-) 

1. magnificent (building)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ta̠ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [당]

Wikisource 堂 (eumhun 집 당 (jip dang))

1. Hanja form^? of 당 (“main room; room for a specific purpose”).

堂: Hán Nôm readings: đường, đoàng

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