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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈田土 (VFIWG), four-corner 20914, composition)

  1. wrap, wind around
  2. tie, bind

References

  • KangXi: page 943, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28043
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3467, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7E8F

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*dan, *dans
*dan
*dan
*dan
*dan
*dan

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (11) (11)
Final () (79) (79)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠiᴇn/ /ɖˠiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚiɛn/ /ɖᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiæn/ /ȡiænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖian/ /ɖianH/
Li
Rong
/ȡjɛn/ /ȡjɛnH/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭɛn/ /ȡĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯ɛn/ /ȡʱi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chán zhàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chán
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjen ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ra[n]/
English bind, wind

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1211 1217
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*dan/ /*dans/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(triền, dờn)

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