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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金一弓 (CMN), four-corner 81120, composition)

  1. nail, spike
  2. pursue closely

References

  • KangXi: page 1296, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40159
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4169, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+91D8

Chinese

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simp.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (5) (5)
Final () (125) (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/teŋ/ /teŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/teŋ/ /teŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛŋ/ /tɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛjŋ/ /tɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/teŋ/ /teŋH/
Wang
Li
/tieŋ/ /tieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tieŋ/ /tieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dīng dìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dīng dìng
Middle
Chinese
‹ teng › ‹ tengH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤeŋ/ /*tˤeŋ-s/
English nail (n.) nail (v.)

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. 2379 2393
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*teːŋ/ /*teːŋs/

Noun

  1. nail (spike-shaped fastener)

Compounds

Verb

  1. (Cantonese slang) to die

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana くぎ, romaji kugi)

  1. a nail; a spike made of metal or hard material used to stick something

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đinh, đanh, đính, đĩnh)

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