English

Pronunciation

• a UK /tɒŋ/ /tQN/
• Rhymes with: -ɒŋ

Noun

1. A Chinese secret society.

Translations

See also

• tongs
• triad
• yakuza

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

1. tongue

1. A kind of flatfish, the common sole, Solea solea.

Mandarin

Adjective

1. same

   Tong Yige Shijie, Tong Yige Mengxiang. "One World, One Dream."

Pinyin syllable

tong

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, tōng, tóng, tǒng, or tòng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Tong may refer to:

Chinese

• Tang Dynasty, a dynasty in the Chinese history, translated based on Cantonese
• Tong (organization), a type of social organization found in Chinese immigrant communities
• tong, pronunciation of several Chinese characters
• See:
  • The Chinese surnames Tang (唐 and 湯/汤) transliterated based on Cantonese
  • The Chinese surnames (佟, 童 and 仝) transliterated based on Mandarin

Places

• Tong, Shropshire, a village in Shropshire, England
• Tong, West Yorkshire, a village in West Yorkshire, England
• Tong Forge, a village in Staffordshire, England
• Tonge, Kent, a village in Kent, England
• Tonge, Leicestershire, a village in Leicestershire, England
• Tong, Western Isles (Gaelic: Tunga), a village in the Eilean Siar council area of Scotland

Miscellaneous

• The Tongs is also the name of a non-Chinese street gang in Glasgow'
• A customary unit of area equal to 50×60 sana lamjel (1 pari) in Manipur, India. 32 tong equalled 1 pari.
• Tong (video game), an open source game which combines the arcade classics Tetris and Pong
• A word used as a pun on 'song' in the album Sung Tongs

See also

• Tongs, a tool for picking things up
• Pete Tong, a dance music DJ and radio presenter