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殿
殿
Translingual
Etymology: From hand 殳 and a person squating 尸 and remnant 共 (a man sitting his butt in on a stool) (now 臀). Original meaning butt. Later meaning a hall.
Han character
殿 (radical 79 殳+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸金竹弓水 (SCHNE), four-corner 77247, composition ⿰𡱒殳)
Synonyms
Derived characters
See also
References
- KangXi: page 586, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16651
- Dae Jaweon: page 978, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2162, character 9
- Unihan data for U+6BBF
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
殿 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 殿
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (殿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 殿 | *tɯːns, *dɯːns |
| 澱 | *dɯːns |
| 壂 | *dɯːns |
| 臀 | *duːn |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: tien4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
- IPA (key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: din6
- Yale: dihn
- Cantonese Pinyin: din6
- IPA (key): /tiːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
- Hakka Romanization System: tien
- Hagfa Pinyim: tian4
- IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
- Tâi-lô: tiān
- Phofsit Daibuun: dien
- IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛn²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 殿 | 殿 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | IV |
| Fanqie | 堂練切 | 都甸切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/denH/ | /tenH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/denH/ | /tenH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dɛnH/ | /tɛnH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dɛnH/ | /tɛnH/ |
| Li Rong |
/denH/ | /tenH/ |
| Wang Li |
/dienH/ | /tienH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱienH/ | /tienH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
diàn | diàn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 殿 | 殿 | 殿 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
diàn | diàn | diàn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ denH › | ‹ tenH › | ‹ tenH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[N-t]ˤə[n]-s/ | /*tˤə[n]-s/ | /*tˤə[n]-s/ |
| English | palace | rear (building, army unit) | palace, hall |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 殿 | 殿 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 2355 | 2356 |
| Phonetic component |
殿 | 殿 |
| Rime group |
文 | 文 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
殿 | 電 |
| Old Chinese |
/*tɯːns/ | /*dɯːns/ |
Definitions
殿
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
殿
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Readings
- Goon: でん (den)
- Kan’on: てん (ten)
- Kun: との (tono), どの (dono), しんがり (shingari)
- Nanori: あと (ato), すえ (sue), との (tono)
Compounds
- 沈殿 (chinden)
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 殿 |
|
どの Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
Suffix
殿 (hiragana どの, romaji -dono)
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Korean
Hanja
殿 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)
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