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端

端

Translingual

Han character

端 (radical 117 立+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿山一月 (YTUMB), four-corner 02127, composition ⿰立耑)

References

  • KangXi: page 872, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25806
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1303, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2714, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7AEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 端

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 端
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揣 *toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍 *toːlʔ, *toːn
惴 *tjols
圌 *djol, *djon
篅 *djol, *djon
瑞 *djols
端 *toːn
剬 *toːn, *tjonʔ
偳 *toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴 *toːn
耑 *toːn
踹 *toːns, *djonʔ
湍 *tʰoːn, *tjon
煓 *tʰoːn
貒 *tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯 *stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓 *tjon
喘 *tʰjonʔ
遄 *djon
輲 *djon
椯 *djon
歂 *djon, *djonʔ
腨 *djonʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːn) : semantic 立 + phonetic 耑 ‎(OC *toːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 端
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 多官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /twan/
Li
Rong		 /tuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /tuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 duān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 端
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 duān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ twan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤor/
English tip (n.)

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 端
Reading # 1/1
No. 2500
Phonetic
component		 耑
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 端
Old
Chinese		 /*toːn/

Definitions

端

  1. to hold something level with hand
  2. end; tip
  3. beginning; start
  4. upright; erect
  5. to wipe out; to destroy altogether

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

端

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
端
はし
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

端 ‎(hiragana はし, romaji hashi)

  1. an edge, and end of something

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

端 (đoan)

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