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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金心山 (CPU), four-corner 85117, composition)

  1. blunt, obtuse
  2. dull
  3. flat
  4. dull-witted

References

  • KangXi: page 1298, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40219
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4175, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+920D

Chinese

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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/duonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/duənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dwənH/
Li
Rong
/duənH/
Wang
Li
/duənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dùn

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. someting blunt, blunt sword
  2. "good-for-nothing", incompetent person, coward
  3. (vulgar) sleepyhead, slowpoke, dawdler, loafer

Readings

Noun

(hiragana にび, romaji nibi)

  1. Abbreviation of 鈍色.

Korean

Hanja

(dun) (hangeul , revised dun, McCune-Reischauer tun, Yale twun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(độn)