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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田戈 (DTWI), four-corner 48946, composition)

  1. goblet
  2. jar, jug
  3. lush

References

  • KangXi: page 552, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15500
  • Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1295, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6A3D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*zuːn
*zuːnʔ, *zuːns
*zuːns
*ʔsun
*ʔsun, *zun
*sʰun
*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsuːn) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *ʔsuːn).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tswon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ˤu[n]/
English 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17985
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsuːn/
Notes

Noun

  1. vase
  2. bottle
    玻璃 [Cantonese]   bo1 lei4zeon1 [Jyutping]   glass bottle
  3. classifier for bottles
    [Cantonese]   jat1zeon1 zau2 [Jyutping]   a bottle of wine

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瓶子 (“bottle”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 瓶子
Mandarin Beijing 瓶子瓶兒
Taiwan 瓶子
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Taishan
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 罐仔、盎仔
Liudui (S. Sixian) 罐仔、盎仔
Hsinchu (Hailu) 罐仔、盎仔
Dongshi (Dabu)
Zhuolan (Raoping) 罐仔、盎仔
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Min Nan Quanzhou 矸仔、
Xiamen 矸仔、
Zhangzhou 矸仔、
Taipei 矸仔、
Chaozhou
Wu Wenzhou
Dialectal synonyms of (“classifier for bottles”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing 瓶兒
Taiwan
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Min Nan Taipei

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
たる
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana たる, romaji taru)

  1. barrel

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
そん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (tswon).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana そん, romaji son)

  1. barrel

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(jun) (hangeul , revised jun, McCune-Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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