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| Simplified Chinese version |
| 東 U+6771 |  Seal script |  Jinwen |  Jiaguwen |  Jianbo | 东 Semantic variant Simplified character |
| Radical: | 木+ 4 strokes = 8 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.22#1 Kangxi: p.513#12 Cihai: p.675r6c02 GSR: 1175.a Hanyu: v2,p1165#04 |
| Composition: | Component of: 倲 冻 𫨽 𤟈 㖦 㨂 埬 徚 娻 岽 崬 涷 𢔅 𫳒 𢛔 陈 𮟽 𤦪 栋 氭 [More] |
| Mandarin: | dōng ㄉㄨㄥ |
| Cantonese: | dung1 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *dung |
| Shuowen: | 《东部》东：动也。从木。官溥说：从日在木中。凡东之属皆从东。 |
| Guangyun: | 《广韵·上平声·东·东》东：春方也。《说文》曰：动也，从日在木中亦东风菜广州记云陆地生茎赤和肉作羹味如酪香似兰吴都赋云莫则东风扶留又姓舜七友有东不訾又汉复姓十三氏左传鲁郷东门襄仲后因氏焉齐有大夫东郭偃又有东宫得臣晋有东关嬖五神仙传有广陵人东陵圣母适杜氏齐景公时有隐居东陵者乃以爲氏丗本宋大夫东郷爲贾执英贤传云今高密有东郷姓宋有貟外郎东阳无疑撰齐谐记七卷昔有东闾子甞富贵后乞于道云吾爲相六年未荐一士夏禹之后东楼公封于杞后以爲氏庄子东野稷汉有平原东方朔曹瞒传有南阳太守东里昆何氏姓苑有东莱氏。德红切，十七。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·木部·四》东：《唐韵》《正韵》德红切《集韵》《韵会》都笼切，𠀤音蝀。《说文》动也。阳气动，于时爲春。《书·尧典》平秩东作。《孔传》岁起于东，而始就耕也。《淮南子·天文训》东方木也，其帝太皡。又《史记·历书》日起于东，月起于西。《郑樵·通志》日在木中曰东，在木上曰杲，在木下曰杳。木，若木也，日所升降。又《诗·大雅》东有啓明。又《尔雅·释地》东至于泰远。又姓。《圣贤羣辅录》舜友东不訾。又叶当经切，音丁。《诗·小雅》念我土宇，我生不辰。逢天僤怒，自西徂东。又叶都郞切，音当。《杨泉·蚕赋》粤召仆夫，筑室于旁。于旁伊何，在庭之东。○按《说文》东自爲部，今倂入。 |
| Fanqie: | 德红 (《广韵·上平声·东·东》) |
| Unihan definition: | east, eastern, eastward |
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[Show proper names]Example usage
| 《论语·乡党》: | 疾，君视之，东首，加朝服，拖绅。 |
| When he was ill and the prince came to visit him, he had his head to the east, made his court robes be spread over him, and drew his girdle across them. | |
| 《孟子·尽心上》: | 太公辟纣，居东海之滨，闻文王作兴，曰：‘盍归乎来！’ |
| Tai Gong, to avoid Zhou, was dwelling on the coast of the eastern sea. When he heard of the rise of king Wen, he said, "Why should I not go and follow him?" | |
| 《礼记·投壶》: | 司射进度壶，间以二矢半，反位，设中，东面，执八算兴。 |
| The superintendent of the archery comes forward, and measures the distance of the pot (from the mats), which should be a space of the length of two and a half arrows. He then returns to his station, sets forth the stand for the tallies, and with his face to the east, takes eight counters and stands up. | |
| 《孝经·感应》: | 《诗》云：‘自西自东，自南自北，无思不服。’ |
| It is said in the Book of Poetry: From the west to the east, From the south to the north, There was not a thought but did him homage. | |
| 《扬子法言》: | 观书者譬诸观山及水，升东岳而知众山之逦迤也，况介丘乎？ |
| Looking at the the Confucian Books is comparable to looking at mountains and water: Ascending Mt. Tai, one knows the small and winding landscape of the other mountains of the range, how much more that of the little hills. | |
| 《论衡·率性》: | 试取东下直一金之剑，更熟鍜鍊，足其火，齐其銛，犹千金之剑也。 |
| Take a sword worth only one jin from Dongxia, heat it again, and forge it, giving it sufficient fire, and smoothing and sharpening its edge, and it will be like a sword of a thousand jin. | |
| 《墨子·经说上》: | 宇：东西家南北。 |
| 'East and West' covers North and South. | |
| 《庄子·逍遥游》: | 东西跳梁，不避高下。 |
| East and west it leaps about, avoiding neither what is high nor what is low. | |
| 《商君书·来民》: | 然则山东之民无不西者矣。 |
| Then all the people from east of the mountains will migrate westward. | |
| 《史记·五帝本纪》: | 东至于海，登丸山，及岱宗。 |
| Eastward his empire extended to the sea, Ball hill, and the ancestral Dai mountain. | |
| 《荀子·正论》: | 语曰：“浅不足与测深，愚不足与谋智，坎井之蛙，不可与语东海之乐。” |
| 《说苑·君道》: | 夫上之化下，犹风靡草，东风则草靡而西，西风则草靡而东，在风所由而草为之靡，是故人君之动不可不慎也。 |
| 《春秋繁露·王道》: | 彗星见于东方，孛于大辰。 |
| 《韩诗外传·卷二》: | 颜渊侍坐鲁定公于台，东野毕御马于台下。 |
| 《大戴礼记·夏小正》: | 初昏织女正东乡。 |
| 《白虎通德论·社稷》: | 在门东，明自下之无事处也。 |
| 《新书·修政语上》: | 故鬟河而道之九牧，凿江而道之九路，洒五湖而定东海 |
| 《新序·善谋下》: | 高皇帝疑，问左右大臣，皆山东人，多劝上都雒阳，东有成皋，西有肴渑，倍河海，向伊洛，其固亦足恃，且周数百年，秦二世而亡，不如都周。 |
| 《中论·爵禄》: | 太公亮武王克商宁乱，王封之爽鸠氏之墟，东至于海，西至于河，南至于穆陵，北至于无棣。 |
| 《孔子家语·大昏解》: | 如日月东西相从而不已也，是天道也。 |
| 《潜夫论·贤难》: | 鹿斯东奔，司原纵噪之。 |
| 《太玄经·玄测都序》: | 经则有南有北，纬则有西有东。 |
| 《风俗通义·六国》: | 赵之先与秦同祖，其裔孙曰造父，于周穆王，为御骅骝、騄耳之乘，西谒西王母，东灭徐偃王，日驰千里，帝念其功，赐以赵城，因以为姓。 |
| 《孔丛子·嘉言》: | 齐东郭亥欲攻田氏，执贽见夫子而访焉。 |
| 《申鉴·俗嫌》: | 曰：“此天地之数也，非吉凶所生也，东方主生，死者不鲜。” |
| 《新语·术事》: | 文王生于东夷，大禹出于西羌，世殊而地绝，法合而度同。 |
| 《独断·卷上》: | 天子父事天，母事地，兄事日，姊事月，常以春分朝日于东门之外，示有所尊，训人民事君之道也。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·独断》: | 天子大社，以五色土为坛，皇子封为王者，受天子之社土以所封之方色，东方受青，南方受赤，他如其方色，苴以白茅授之，各以其所封方之色。 |
| 《列子·天瑞》: | 向氏大惑，以为国氏之重罔己也，遇东郭先生问焉 |
| 《鶡冠子·环流》: | 斗柄东指，天下皆春，斗柄南指，天下皆夏，斗柄西指，天下皆秋，斗柄北指，天下皆冬。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 古民童蒙，不知东西，貌不离情，言不出行，行出无容，言而不文，其衣致，神德不全于身者，不知何远之能坏，欲害之心忘乎中者，即饥虎可尾也，而况于人？ |
| 《文始真经·九药》: | 关尹子曰：“古今之俗不同，东西南北之俗又不同，至于一家、一身之善又不同。” |
| 《列仙传·吕尚》: | 避纣之乱，隐于辽东四十年。 |
| 《鬻子》: | 汤之治天下也，得庆誧、伊尹、湟里且、东门虚、南门蝡、西门疵、北门侧，得七大夫佐以治天下，而天下治。 |
| 《韩非子·初见秦》: | 臣敢言之，往者齐南破荆，东破宋，西服秦，北破燕，中使韩、魏，土地广而兵强，战克攻取，诏令天下。 |
| 《谏逐客书》: | 昔缪公求士，西取由余于戎，东得百里奚于宛，迎蹇叔于宋，来丕豹、公孙支于晋。 |
| 《管子·轻重己》: | 天子东出其国，九十二里而坛，朝诸侯卿大夫列士，循于百姓，号曰祭星。 |
| 《吴子·料敌》: | 武侯谓吴起曰：“今秦胁吾西，楚带吾南，赵冲吾北，齐临吾东，燕绝吾后，韩据吾前。” |
| 《六韬·兵道》: | 欲其西，袭其东。 |
| 《尉缭子·天官》: | 今有城，东西攻不能取。 |
| 《海岛算经》: | 立两表东、西去六丈，齐人目，以索连之。 |
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