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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土十月金 (GJBC), four-corner 41181, composition)

  1. fill in, fill up
  2. make good

Variant:

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

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)
tián
Middle
Chinese
‹ den ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ˤi[n]/
English obstruct; embankment

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 17051 17060 17063 17066
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*diːn/ /*diːns/ /*tin/ /*tins/
Notes

Verb

  1. to fill out (a form, etc.)

Compounds

填滿 (to cram)


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon, jin) (hangeul , , revised jeon, jin, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, chin)

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