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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心山一月金 (PUMBC), four-corner 51786, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1401, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1918, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4360, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9813

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːnʔ
*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
*tuːns
*tuːns
*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
*tʰuːnʔ
*duːn, *tun
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn, *stʰuːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn, *duːnʔ
*duːnʔ
*tun
*tʰun
*tʰun
椿 *tʰun
*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
*tjun
*tjun, *tjuns
*tjunʔ, *djun
*tʰjun
*tʰjunʔ
*tʰjunʔ
*tʰjunʔ
*djun
*hljunʔ
*hljuns

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tuən⁵¹/
Harbin /tuən⁵³/
Tianjin /tuən⁵³/
Jinan /tuẽ²¹/
Qingdao /tuə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tuən³¹²/
Xi'an /tuẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /tuə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /tuŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /tũn¹³/
Ürümqi /tuŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /tən³⁵/
Chengdu /tən¹³/
Guiyang /ten²¹³/
Kunming /tuə̃²¹²/
Nanjing /tun⁴⁴/
Hefei /tən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /tuəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tuŋ¹³/
Hohhot /tũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /təŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /tən⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ten⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /taŋ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /tʌ̃³²⁴/
Tunxi /tuːə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /tən⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /tən⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /tɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /tun³¹/
Taoyuan /tun³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tøn²²/
Nanning /tɐn²²/
Hong Kong /tøn²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tun²¹/
/tŋ̍²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /touŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tuŋ³⁵/
/tɯŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdun³⁵/
/ʔdun⁵⁵/
/ʔdui³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/twənH/
Li
Rong
/tuənH/
Wang
Li
/tuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dùn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12541
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuːns/

Definitions

  1. to pause
  2. to arrange
  3. to stamp the ground
  4. classifier for meals, occurrences
  5. (Teochew) meal
  6. suddenly

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(don, dun) (hangeul , )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đốn, đón, nhún, dún, đon, đún, lún, rón)

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