# 噸

| 噸 | U+5678, &#22136; 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 6108$_6$, 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
### 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): deon$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tun / tún
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dong$^4$ / duong$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tan / tun / tùn / tòng
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$ten
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dūn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dun
*** Wade–Giles: tun$^1$
*** Yale: dwūn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duen
*** Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tu̯ən⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
*** Wade–Giles: tun$^4$
*** Yale: dwùn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
*** Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tu̯ən⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: deon$^1$
*** Yale: dēun
*** Cantonese Pinyin: doen$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dên$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɵn⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tun / tún
*** Hakka Romanization System: dun / dun$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: dun$^4$ / dun$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /tun⁵⁵/, /tun³¹/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɔŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: duong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/
* tan - colloquial;
* tun - literary.

### 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

(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

* Nom Foundation