墊

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See also: 垫
墊 U+588A, 墊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-588A
← 墉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 墋 →

Translingual

Han character

墊 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土戈土 (GIG), four-corner 45104, composition ⿱執土)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 237, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5420
  • Dae Jaweon: page 476, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 477, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+588A

Chinese

trad. 墊
simp. 垫
alternative forms 㞟 “to pay in advance”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (執) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
騺 *tibs
摯 *tjibs
贄 *tjibs
鷙 *tjibs
墊 *tiːms, *diːb
慹 *tjeb, *ndiːb, *sdib, *tjib
謺 *tjeb
褺 *diːb
蓻 *stib
縶 *tib
漐 *tʰib
蟄 *dib
執 *tjib
瓡 *tjib

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tiːms, *diːb): phonetic 執 (OC *tjib) + semantic 土 (“earth”).

Etymology

"to pay in advance"

Replaced 㞟 (diàn).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “zin3 from 荐?”)

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • din3 - literary;
  • zin3 - vernacular;.
Note:
  • tiàm - literary;
  • tiān/tiām/tiàn/thiām - vernacular.

Definitions

墊

  1. pad; cushion; mat
  2. to put something under something else to raise or balance it
    用嚟墊煲底／用嚟垫煲底   ―  jung6 lai4 zin3 bou1 dai2   ―  to use as a mat for a pot
  3. to fill up something; to insert something
  4. (Southern Min) to sow
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

墊

  1. to pay something in advance; to pay for somebody
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Rime
Character 墊
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都念切
Baxter temH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/temH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/temH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɛmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɛmH/
Li
Rong 		/temH/
Wang
Li 		/tiemH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tiemH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		diàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dim3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 墊
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		diàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ temH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁm-s/
English descend

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 墊
Reading # 1/2
No. 17279
Phonetic
component 		執
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		店
Old
Chinese 		/*tiːms/

Definitions

墊

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to sink down; to drown; to perish; to descend

Compounds

Pronunciation 4

Rime
Character 墊
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 怗 (158)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 徒協切
Baxter dep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dep̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dep̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɛp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dɛp̚/
Li
Rong 		/dep̚/
Wang
Li 		/diep̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱiep̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dié
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dip6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 墊
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dié
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tep ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁip/
English (place in Sìchuān, no pre-Hàn text)

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 墊
Reading # 2/2
No. 17283
Phonetic
component 		執
Rime
group 		緝
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		牒
Old
Chinese 		/*diːb/

Definitions

墊

  1. only used in 墊江／垫江 (Diànjiāng)

References

Japanese

Kanji

墊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): てん (ten)、ちょう (chō)、じょう (jō)
  • Kun: おちいる (ochīru, 墊る)、おぼれる (oboreru, 墊れる)、なやむ (nayamu, 墊む)

Korean

Hanja

墊 • (jeom) (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune–Reischauer chŏm)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墊: Hán Nôm readings: điếm

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