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Translingual

Han character

(radical 104 +19, 24 strokes, cangjie input 大十金金 (KJCC), four-corner 00186)

  1. crazy, mad
  2. madness, mania, insanity

References

  • KangXi: page 783, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2705, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7672

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjels
*kʰriːn
*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
*tiːn, *tʰiːns
*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
*tiːn
*tiːn, *tjinʔ
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tʰiːns, *tins
*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *tjin
*diːn
*diːn, *tʰjin
*diːn
*tin, *tins
*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
*ʔljin
*tjin
*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
*tjin
*ʔljinʔ
*tʰjin
*tʰjin
*djins

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ten/
Pan
Wuyun
/ten/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛn/
Li
Rong
/ten/
Wang
Li
/tien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17047
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tiːn/
Notes

Adjective

  1. crazy; nuts; mad
    狗病 / 狗病 [Cantonese]   din1 gau2 beng6 [Jyutping]   rabies (lit. mad dog sickness)

Verb

  1. (Cantonese) to go mad; to display insane behavior

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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