堂 (tong4 | tang2 {tang5}) : hall; office; reception

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堂

tong4

tang2 {tang5}

1. [n] hall; government office; office; reception
2. {Malaysia and Singapore usage} count noun for vehicles e.g.
一堂車

Stroke count: 11

Level: 2

Radical: 土 (#32)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

堂

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 5th Aug 2009 17:05

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教堂 gaau3 tong4/4*2 jiao4 tang2 = church

大教堂 daai6 gaau3 tong4 da4 jiao4 tang2 = cathedral

天堂 tin1 tong4 tian1 tang2 = heaven; paradise

上堂 soeng5 tong4 shang4 tang2 = attend class

落堂 lok6 tong4 = to finish class or school 粵

堂課 tong4 fo3 = classwork

禮拜堂 lai5 baai3 tong4 li3 bai4 tang2 = church

食堂 sik6 tong4 shi2 tang2 = dining hall; food hall; eating place (indoors), cafeteria

課堂 fo3 tong4 ke4 tang2 = classroom

講堂 gong2 tong4 jiang3 tang2 = lecture hall; lecture theatre
See all 83 compounds (CantoDict reports 86 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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有冇去禮拜堂呀? 粵
Do you go to church?

佢成日掛住去浦，唔想返學或者上堂粵
He'd rather go out to drink and smoke than go to school or classes
[Lit. He always miss go play, not want return school or attend-class Less idiomatically: He misses going out, he doesn't want to go to school or classes 浦 is similar to 玩 but less wholesome.]

今日冇堂上，因為琴日上咗堂。粵
There is no class today, because we had one yesterday.

死咗之後咪使旨意上天堂或者下地獄粵
Don't think you can go to heaven or hell after you die.
[Std. Chinese: 死後別想上天堂或下地獄]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 堂
Unicode code for this character: U+5802 (off-site link)

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