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Translingual

Han character

(radical 66 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜木人大 (YDOK), four-corner 08440, composition)

  1. esteem
  2. honest, candid, sincere

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 473, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13276
  • Dae Jaweon: page 826, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1468, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6566

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjuː, *tuːn
*tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
*duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
*duːls
*duːls
*duːls
*duːls
*doːn
*doːn, *djun
*tuːn, *tjun
*tuːn
*tuːn
*tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
*tʰuːn, *djun
*tʰuːn, *duːn
*tʰuːn
*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
*tjun, *tjuns
*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
*tjuns
*djun
*djun
*njun

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (5) (5) (7) (5)
Final () (42) (55) (62) (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed Closed
Division () I I I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuʌi/ /tuən/ /duɑn/ /tuənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuoi/ /tuon/ /dʷɑn/ /tuonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuɒi/ /tuən/ /duɑn/ /tuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/twəj/ /twən/ /dwan/ /twənH/
Li
Rong
/tuᴀi/ /tuən/ /duɑn/ /tuənH/
Wang
Li
/tuɒi/ /tuən/ /duɑn/ /tuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuɑ̆i/ /tuən/ /dʱuɑn/ /tuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duī dūn tuán dùn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
duī dūn dūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ twoj › ‹ twon › ‹ twon ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤur/ (dialect: *-r > *-j) /*tˤur/ /*tˤur/
English manage, direct solid, thick 敦煌 ~ 燉煌 Dūnhuáng

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. 2587 2594 2597 2602
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 3 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuːl/ /*doːn/ /*tuːn/ /*tuːns/

Definitions

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. kindness, affinity

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
たい
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (twoj).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana たい, romaji tai)

  1. dui (vessel)

Proper noun

(hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)

  1. A male given name

(hiragana つとむ, romaji Tsutomu)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(don, toe) (hangeul , , revised don, toe, McCune-Reischauer ton, t'oe, Yale ton, thoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đôn, đon, gion, ton, xôn, xun, dôn, đùn, giôn, nhật)

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