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Translingual

Han character

(radical 37 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田大 (TWK), four-corner 80430, composition)

  1. pay respect
  2. settle

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 253, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5960
  • Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 546, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5960

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*diːŋs
*deŋs
*deɡ
*deɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (wine) +  (table).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (7) (5)
Final () (85) (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/denH/ /teŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/denH/ /teŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛnH/ /tɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛnH/ /tɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/denH/ /teŋH/
Wang
Li
/dienH/ /tieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱienH/ /tieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diàn dìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
diàn diàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ denH › ‹ denH ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-tˤe[n]-s/ /*m-tˤe[n]-s/
English be fixed (v.i.) set forth (v.t.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2351
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*diːŋs/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 供奠
  • 奠儀奠仪
  • 奠地
  • 奠基 (diànjī)
  • 奠安
  • 奠定 (diàndìng)
  • 奠敬
  • 奠立
  • 奠都 (diàndū)
  • 奠酒 (diànjiǔ)
  • 奠酹
  • 奠雁
  • 家奠
  • 弔奠
  • 拜奠
  • 澆奠浇奠
  • 祖奠
  • 祭奠 (jìdiàn)
  • 設奠设奠
  • 路奠
  • 遣奠
  • 饋奠馈奠

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(điện)

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