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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 水一弓 (EMN), four-corner 31120, composition)

  1. sandbar
  2. beach
  3. bank
  4. shore

References

  • KangXi: page 604, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17103
  • Dae Jaweon: page 997, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1548, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6C40

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ
*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ
*rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ
*rteŋʔ, *rdeŋ
*rteːŋ, *rdeːŋ
*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
*rdeːŋ, *tʰeŋ, *teːŋ
*rdeːŋ
*teːŋ, *teːŋs
*teːŋ, *teːŋʔ
*teːŋ
*teːŋ
*teːŋ
*teːŋʔ
*teːŋʔ
*teːŋʔ
*teːŋʔ
*teːŋʔ, *deːŋ
*teːŋs
*teːŋs, *tʰeːŋ, *deːŋʔ
*teːŋs
*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋs
*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ
*tʰeːŋ
*deːŋ
*deːŋ
*deːŋ
*deːŋ
*deːŋ
*deːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (6) (6)
Final () (125) (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰeŋ/ /tʰeŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰeŋ/ /tʰeŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛŋ/ /tʰɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛjŋ/ /tʰɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/tʰeŋ/ /tʰeŋH/
Wang
Li
/tʰieŋ/ /tʰieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰieŋ/ /tʰieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tīng tìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ theng ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰˤeŋ/
English level land beside water

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 2397 2405
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰeːŋ/ /*tʰeːŋs/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 汀州
  • 汀曲
  • 汀洲
  • 汀濘汀泞
  • 汀瀅汀滢
  • 汀線汀线

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. beach, shore, water's edge

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Compound of (mi, water) + (kiwa, edge, brink, small thing). The final ki voices to gi due to rendaku (連濁).

Noun

(hiragana なぎさ, romaji nagisa)

  1. water's edge, shore

(hiragana みぎわ, romaji migiwa)

  1. water's edge, shore

Korean

Hanja

(jeong) (hangeul , revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đênh, đinh, thinh)

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