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尊

尊

Translingual

Han character

尊 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田木戈 (TWDI), four-corner 80346, composition ⿱酋寸)

Derived characters

Synonyms

Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 295, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7445
  • Dae Jaweon: page 585, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 509, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5C0A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 尊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尊
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尊 *ʔsuːn
樽 *ʔsuːn
罇 *ʔsuːn
嶟 *ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
繜 *ʔsuːn
撙 *ʔsuːnʔ
噂 *ʔsuːnʔ
譐 *ʔsuːnʔ
僔 *ʔsuːnʔ
蹲 *zuːn
鱒 *zuːnʔ, *zuːns
鐏 *zuːns
遵 *ʔsun
鷷 *ʔsun, *zun
墫 *sʰun
竴 *sʰun

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 酋 ‎(“vinegar”) + 寸 ‎(“hand”) – to give 寸 an offering 酋 – respect, veneration.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 尊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 祖昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡suon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡swən/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suən/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尊 尊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zūn zūn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tswon › ‹ tswon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤu[n]/ /*[ts]ˤu[n]/
English honor (v.) wine-cup

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 尊
Reading # 1/1
No. 17984
Phonetic
component		 尊
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 尊
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsuːn/

Definitions

尊

  1. to respect, revere, venerate
  2. to honor

Japanese

Kanji

尊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. noble
  2. god, exalted, deity who happens to be an Amatsukami and an ancestral deity (sōjin) of the Imperial House; it is then read "Mikoto".

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

尊 ‎(hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

  1. A male given name

尊 ‎(hiragana たける, romaji Takeru)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

尊 • ‎(jon) (hangeul 존, revised jon, McCune-Reischauer chon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun, tặng)

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