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藤
藤
See also: 籐
Translingual
Han character
藤 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿月火水 (TBFE), four-corner 44232, composition ⿱艹滕)
References
- KangXi: page 1065, character 46
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32340
- Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3321, character 5
- Unihan data for U+85E4
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
藤 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (朕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 黱 | *l'ɯːs |
| 朕 | *l'ɯmʔ |
| 鰧 | *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ |
| 螣 | *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ |
| 栚 | *l'ɯmʔ |
| 眹 | *l'ɯnʔ |
| 騰 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 滕 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 縢 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 儯 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 幐 | *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːŋs |
| 藤 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 謄 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 膡 | *l'ɯːŋ, *hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs |
| 籐 | *l'ɯːŋ |
| 勝 | *hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs |
| 蕂 | *hljɯŋs |
| 榺 | *hljɯŋs |
| 塍 | *ɦljɯŋ |
| 媵 | *ljɯŋs, *lɯŋs |
| 賸 | *ɦljɯŋs, *lɯŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ɯːŋ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 滕 (OC *l'ɯːŋ) – a type of plant.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: t'êng2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tengr
- IPA (key): /tʰɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tang4
- Yale: tàhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: tang4
- IPA (key): /tʰɐŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tîn / têng
- Tâi-lô: tîn / tîng
- Phofsit Daibuun: diin, deeng
- IPA (Xiamen): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tin¹³/, /tiɪŋ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tin²³/, /tiɪŋ²³/
- Note: tîn - colloquial; têng - literary.
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 藤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 登 (129) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒登切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dəŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dəŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dəŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dəŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/dəŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/dəŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱəŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
téng |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 藤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17121 |
| Phonetic component |
朕 |
| Rime group |
蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
騰 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l'ɯːŋ/ |
Definitions
藤
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Japanese
Kanji
藤
Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 藤 |
|
ふじ Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
Noun
藤 (hiragana ふじ, katakana フジ, romaji fuji, historical hiragana ふぢ)
- wisteria, especially Wisteria floribunda
Proper noun
藤 (hiragana ふじ, romaji Fuji, historical hiragana ふぢ)
- A female given name.
Derived terms
- 藤夫 (Fujio): a male given name
- 藤色 (Fujīro): violet, lilac, lavender
- 藤沢 (Fujisawa): a surname
- 藤本 (Fujimoto): a surname
- 藤島 (Fujishima): a surname
- 藤井 (Fujī): a surname
- 藤岡 (Fujioka): a surname
- 藤瀬 (Fujise): a surname
- 藤栄 (Tōei): a surname
- 藤城 (Fujishiro): a surname
Korean
Hanja
藤 • (deung) (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune-Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
藤 (đằng)
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