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Translingual

Han character

(radical 152 +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月一尸人 (BMSO), four-corner 71232, composition)

  1. small pig, suckling pig
  2. used in names for dolphins and porpoises in combination with other characters, such as in 海豚 (dolphin, or sea-pig).

References

  • KangXi: page 1194, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36352
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1657, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3611, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8C5A

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duən/
Pan
Wuyun
/duon/
Shao
Rongfen
/duən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dwən/
Li
Rong
/duən/
Wang
Li
/duən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tún
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12582
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*duːn/

Noun

  1. pig
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
ぶた
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana ぶた, katakana ブタ, romaji buta)

  1. pig

See also

  • アグー (agū)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

(don) (hangeul , revised don, McCune-Reischauer ton, Yale ton)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đồn)

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