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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 十金一月金 (JCMBC), four-corner 21886, composition)

References


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



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
diān
Middle
Chinese
‹ ten ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤi[n]/
English top

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. 17038 17049
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tiːn/ /*tʰiːns/
Notes

Definitions

  1. top, peak, summit
  2. to fall, topple, upset
  3. to bump, jerk, jolt

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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Vietnamese

Han character

(điên, đen)

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