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燈

燈

See also: 灯

Translingual

Shinjitai 灯
Simplified 灯
Traditional 燈

Han character

燈 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火弓人廿 (FNOT), four-corner 92818, composition ⿰火登)

References

  • KangXi: page 682, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19402
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2238, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+71C8

Chinese

trad. 燈
simp. 灯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (登) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
登 *tɯːŋ
璒 *tɯːŋ
燈 *tɯːŋ
簦 *tɯːŋ
蹬 *tɯːŋ, *dɯːŋs
磴 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs, *tʰɯːŋ
鐙 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs
嶝 *tɯːŋs
隥 *tɯːŋs
橙 *tɯːŋs, *rdɯːŋ
凳 *tɯːŋs
墱 *tɯːŋs
鼟 *tʰɯːŋ
膯 *tʰɯːŋ
澄 *dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ
鄧 *dɯːŋs
僜 *dɯːŋs, *tʰɯŋ
覴 *tʰɯŋs
瞪 *dɯŋ, *dɯŋs, *rdɯːŋ
憕 *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ, *rdɯːŋ
撜 *tjɯŋʔ
證 *tjɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tɯːŋ) : semantic 火 ‎(“candlelight”) + phonetic 登 ‎(OC *tɯːŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都滕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /təŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /təŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /təŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /təŋ/
Li
Rong		 /təŋ/
Wang
Li		 /təŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /təŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tong ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k-tˤəŋ/
English lamp

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 燈
Reading # 1/1
No. 2171
Phonetic
component		 登
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*tɯːŋ/
Notes 鐙後起分化字

Definitions

燈

  1. lamp; light (for illumination)
  2. lamp (for heating)
  3. lantern

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

燈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

燈 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 灯, hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. light

Korean

Hanja

燈 • ‎(deung)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 등 (revised: deung, McCune-Reischauer: tŭng, Yale: tung)
  • Name (hangeul): 등()
  1. lamp, lantern, light

compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

燈 (đăng)

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