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奠

奠

Translingual

Han character

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

pay respect
settle

Derived terms

鄭

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.		奠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 奠
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (奠) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
奠	*diːŋs
鄭	*deŋs
擲	*deɡ
躑	*deɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 酋 ‎(“wine”) + 丌 ‎(“table”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: diàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
  - Wade-Giles: tien⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
  - IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: din⁶
  - Yale: dihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/

Middle Chinese: /den^H/, /teŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	奠	奠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	堂練切	丁定切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/den^H/	/teŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/den^H/	/teŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛn^H/	/tɛŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛn^H/	/tɛjŋ^H/
Li Rong	/den^H/	/teŋ^H/
Wang Li	/dien^H/	/tieŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱien^H/	/tieŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn	dìng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*N-tˤe[n]-s/, /*m-tˤe[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*diːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	奠	奠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ den^H ›	‹ den^H ›
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	奠
Reading #	1/1
No.	2351
Phonetic component	奠
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	電
Old Chinese	/*diːŋs/

Definitions

奠

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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

奠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: てん (ten), でん (den), てい (tei)

Kun: まつる (matsuru), さだめる (sadameru)

Korean

Hanja

奠 • ‎(jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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