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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 79 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中水 (HHSLE), four-corner 77247, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 587, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2166, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+6BC8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːns
*toːns
*toːns
*toːns
*doːnʔ, *doːns
*doːns
*doːns
*doːns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/duɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dwanH/
Li
Rong
/duɑnH/
Wang
Li
/duɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2536
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːns/

Definitions

  1. a bird's egg that will not hatch