糖

糖 U+7CD6, 糖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CD6 ← 糕 [U+7CD5] CJK Unified Ideographs 糗 → [U+7CD7]

糖 U+FA03, 糖 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA03 ← 拓 [U+FA02] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 宅 → [U+FA04]

糖 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火木戈中口 (FDILR), four-corner 9096₇, composition ⿰米唐)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 911, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1338, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3157, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7CD6

• Unihan data for U+FA03

trad.		糖/醣
simp.		糖
2nd round simp.		𰪩
alternative forms		餹／糖 饄 糛 𥼽／𥹥 𥽻
醣 - “saccharide”

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːŋ) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 唐 (OC *ɡl'aːŋ).

Original meaning was “sweet rice cake” or “sugar syrup”. Cognate with 餳 (OC *ljaːŋ).

Compare Proto-Lingao lhaŋ² ("sugar"), whence Lincheng /haŋ˧/, Qiongshan /liaŋ˩˧/.

糖

1. sugar

   白糖  ―  báitáng  ―  white sugar

   紅糖／红糖  ―  hóngtáng  ―  brown sugar

   糖水 [Cantonese]  ―  tong⁴ seoi² [Jyutping]  ―  tong sui (literally, “sugar water”)

   無糖薄荷糖／无糖薄荷糖  ―  wútáng bóhétáng  ―  sugar-free peppermint candy

   糖放多了。  ―  Táng fàng duō le.  ―  Too much sugar is added.

2. Short for 糖果 (tángguǒ). sweets; candy; lollies; confectionery (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c)

   棒棒糖  ―  bàngbàngtáng  ―  lollipop

   無糖薄荷糖／无糖薄荷糖  ―  wútáng bóhétáng  ―  sugar-free peppermint candy

   糖吃多了不好。  ―  Táng chī duō le bùhǎo.  ―  Eating too much candy is unhealthy.

   糖食得多冇益。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   tong^4-2 sik⁶ dak¹ do¹ mou⁵ jik¹. [Jyutping]

   Eating too much candy is unhealthy.

3. (organic chemistry) saccharide; carbohydrate

   多糖  ―  duōtáng  ―  polysaccharide

   葡萄糖  ―  pútáotáng  ―  glucose

4. ^† to preserve food in alcohol or alcohol dregs

   • 蟹之將糖，躁擾彌甚。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     蟹之将糖，躁扰弥甚。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Southern Qi, by Xiao Zixian, 6^th century CE

     Xiè zhī jiāng táng, zàorǎo mí shèn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

5. (Internet slang, figurative) loveable and likeable, cute

   撒糖  ―  sǎtáng  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. (transgender slang, figurative) HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drugs, especially pills

   吃糖  ―  chītáng  ―  to undergo HRT (literally, “to eat candy”)

   昨天糖被我爸媽發現了。 [MSC, trad.]
   昨天糖被我爸妈发现了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zuótiān táng bèi wǒ bàmā fāxiàn le. [Pinyin]

   Yesterday [my] HRT drugs were spotted by my parents.

• (sweets):

Others:

• → Guiqiong: d’ɐŋ
• → Macanese: tôm-tôm

• “糖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03070

Shinjitai	糖
Kyūjitai [1]	糖 糖 or 糖+︀?
	糖󠄀 糖+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	糖󠄃 糖+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 糖)

• Go-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Tō-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: あめ (ame, 糖)
• Nanori: あら (ara)

Kanji in this term
糖
とう Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 糖 (MC dang, “sugar”).

• (Tokyo) とー [tóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ː]

糖(とう) • (tō) ^{←たう (tau)?}

1. (organic chemistry) sugar

From Middle Chinese 糖 (MC dang).

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

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糖 (eumhun 엿 당 (yeot dang))

1. hanja form^? of 당 (“sugar”)

From Early Mandarin 糖 (táng).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [tʰa̠ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [탕]

糖 (eumhun 엿 탕 (yeot tang))

1. hanja form^? of 탕 (“sugar”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

糖: Hán Nôm readings: đường

1. chữ Hán form of đường (“sugar”).