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定

定

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

定 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一卜人 (JMYO), four-corner 30801, composition ⿱㝉龰)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 283, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7109
  • Dae Jaweon: page 559, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 918, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5B9A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 定

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (正) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
綻 *rdeːns
淀 *deːns
靛 *deːns
症 *tjɯŋs
竀 *rtʰeːŋ, *tʰeŋ
征 *tjeŋ
怔 *tjeŋ
正 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
鉦 *tjeŋ
鴊 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
眐 *tjeŋ
佂 *tjeŋ
整 *tjeŋʔ
政 *tjeŋs
証 *tjeŋs
定 *teːŋs, *deːŋs
顁 *teːŋs
錠 *teːŋs, *deːŋʔ, *deːŋs
掟 *deːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *teːŋs, *deːŋs) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 正 ‎(OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs) (form closer to 疋).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 定 定
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 青 (125) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 徒徑切 丁定切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /deŋH/ /teŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /deŋH/ /teŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɛŋH/ /tɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dɛjŋH/ /tɛjŋH/
Li
Rong		 /deŋH/ /teŋH/
Wang
Li		 /dieŋH/ /tieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱieŋH/ /tieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dìng dìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 定 定 定
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dìng dìng dìng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dengH › ‹ dengH › ‹ tengH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-tˤeŋ-s/ /*m-tˤeŋ-s/ /*tˤeŋ-s/
English become fixed; settled (v.i.) make fixed, settle (v.t.) ready-cooked (food)

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 定 定
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17181 17187
Phonetic
component		 正 正
Rime
group		 耕 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 矴 定
Old
Chinese		 /*teːŋs/ /*deːŋs/
Notes 見詩 小徐正聲

Definitions

定

  1. stable; steady; fixed
  2. to fix; to stabilise
  3. to put down; to suppress
  4. to establish; to prepare the ground for
  5. to decide; to resolve
  6. to determine; to settle
  7. certainly; definitely; surely
  8. †after all; at all
    定係 / 定系 [Cantonese]  ―  ding6 hai6 [Jyutping]  ―  or
  9. (Cantonese) Short for 定係／定系 (“or”).
  10. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

定

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. determine, fix, establish, decide

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

定 • ‎(jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

定 (định)

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