銅鑼

See also: 铜锣

Chinese

		copper	gong
trad. (銅鑼)		銅	鑼
simp. (铜锣)		铜	锣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóngluó

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴ lo⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng-lò
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tâng-lô
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶don-lu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóngluó
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóngluó
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²-lo²
    • Yale: túng-lwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngluo
    • Palladius: тунло (tunlo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴ lo⁴
    • Yale: tùhng lòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴ lo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴ lo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng-lò
    • Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ loˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tung² lo²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng-lô
    • Tâi-lô: tâng-lô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: danglooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶don-lu
    • MiniDict: don^去 lu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³don-lu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /doŋ²² lu⁴⁴/

Noun

銅鑼

1. bronze gong

Derived terms

• 銅鑼灣／铜锣湾 (Tóngluówān)
• 銅鑼燒／铜锣烧 (tóngluóshāo)

 

Proper noun

銅鑼

1. (～鄉) Tongluo (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)

Further reading

• “Entry #51731”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

銅鑼 (dora): an Asian-style gong.

Kanji in this term
銅	鑼
どう > ど Grade: 5	ら Hyōgaiji
irregular	on’yomi

Alternative spellings
鉦 鑼

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Chinese compound 銅鑼 (MC duwng la, literally “copper + gong”). Alternatively, coined in Japan from Middle Chinese-derived components.

The reading represents a likely sound shift from the expected on'yomi of dōra.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どら [dòrá] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) ど​ら [dóꜜrà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ɾa̠]

Noun

銅(ど)鑼(ら) • (dora) 

1. a gong

Synonyms

• ゴング (gongu)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 銅鑼焼(どらや)き (dorayaki): literally “gong-bake”: a kind of confection consisting of two small cakes baked to resemble gongs, sandwiching a filling of sweet azuki bean paste
• 銅鑼声(どらごえ) (doragoe): literally “gong voice”: a hoarse voice, vaguely similar to the way a gong can sound very brash