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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女十戈戈 (VJII), four-corner 45443, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 270, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6662
  • Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1075, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5AE5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːn, *tjonʔ
*doːn
*doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿 *doːn, *tjon
*doːn
*doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
*doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
*doːn
*doːn, *tjon
*tonʔ, *tons
*tons, *don, *dons
*tons
*donʔ, *dons
*tjon
*tjon
*tjon
*tjon
*tjon
*tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
*tjon, *tjonʔ
*djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjon) : semantic  (female) + phonetic  (OC *tjon).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cwian/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiuɛn/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17688
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjon/

Definitions

  1. single-minded; concentrated
  2. lovely; cute

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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