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段

段

See also: 仮 and 假

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

段 (radical 79 殳+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹十竹弓水 (HJHNE), four-corner 77447)

References

  • KangXi: page 584, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16619
  • Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2155, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6BB5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 段

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (段) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍛 *toːns
腶 *toːns
碫 *toːns
瑖 *toːns
緞 *doːnʔ, *doːns
段 *doːns
椴 *doːns
毈 *doːns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 段
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒玩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dwanH/
Li
Rong		 /duɑnH/
Wang
Li		 /duɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 duàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 段
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 duàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ twanH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤo[n]-s/
English hammer

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 段
Reading # 1/1
No. 2534
Phonetic
component		 段
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 段
Old
Chinese		 /*doːns/

Noun

段

  1. section, piece, division

Classifier

段

  1. measure word for a period of time

Proper noun

段

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

段

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. step
  2. rank; grade

Readings

Compounds

Noun

段 ‎(hiragana だん, romaji dan)

  1. steps (up and down); stairs
  2. rating; ranking
  3. row; line (of text)

Suffix

段 ‎(hiragana だん, romaji -dan)

  1. (after a number) -th rank; -th degree black belt (in karate, judo, etc)

Korean

Hanja

段 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

段 (đoạn, đoàn)

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