甸

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甸 U+7538, 甸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7538
← 男
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 甹 →

Translingual

Han character

甸 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心田 (PW), four-corner 27620, composition ⿹勹田)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21732
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2528, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7538

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 甸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甸
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (田) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
田 *l'iːŋ
佃 *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畋 *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畇 *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
鈿 *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
沺 *l'iːŋ
甸 *l'iːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'iːŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”).

Etymology

Exopassive of 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”), literally "what is being/has been cultivated" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 甸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 堂練切
Baxter denH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/denH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/denH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dɛnH/
Li
Rong 		/denH/
Wang
Li 		/dienH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		diàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		din6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 甸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		diàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ denH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lˁiŋ-s/
English open space outside city

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 甸
Reading # 1/1
No. 12399
Phonetic
component 		田
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		電
Old
Chinese 		/*l'iːŋs/

Definitions

甸

  1. (literary) suburbs of the capital
  2. (literary) field; open country; used in place names, chiefly in Yunnan and North-Eastern China
  3. (obsolete) to govern
  4. (obsolete) crops

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

甸

  1. (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

甸

  1. Only used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn).

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

甸

  1. † to hunt (wild animals)
    alt. forms: 畋 (tián), 田 (tián)

References

Japanese

Kanji

甸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

甸 • (jeon, seung) (hangeul 전, 승)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甸: Hán Nôm readings: điện, điền

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