墩

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墩 U+58A9, 墩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58A9
← 墨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 墪 →

Translingual

Han character

墩 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土卜木大 (GYDK), four-corner 48147, composition ⿰土敦)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 239, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 478, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 488, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+58A9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 墩
2nd round simp. 敦
alternative forms 墪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
弴 *tjuː, *tuːn
敦 *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
錞 *duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
憝 *duːls
憞 *duːls
譈 *duːls
鐓 *duːls
鷻 *doːn
鶉 *doːn, *djun
惇 *tuːn, *tjun
墩 *tuːn
驐 *tuːn
燉 *tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
焞 *tʰuːn, *djun
啍 *tʰuːn, *duːn
暾 *tʰuːn
噋 *tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
諄 *tjun, *tjuns
埻 *tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
稕 *tjuns
醇 *djun
淳 *djun
犉 *njun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːn) : semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 敦 (OC *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • dūnr - “block of stone or wood; seat”.
Rime
Character 墩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都昆切
Baxter twon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuən/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuon/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twən/
Li
Rong 		/tuən/
Wang
Li 		/tuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		deon1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 墩
Reading # 1/1
No. 2600
Phonetic
component 		敦
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		敦
Old
Chinese 		/*tuːn/

Definitions

墩

  1. mound
  2. block of stone or wood
  3. to mop (the floor)
  4. Classifier for densely growing plants: cluster
  5. Classifier for rounds in a card game: trick

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

墩

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): とん (ton)

Korean

Hanja

墩 • (don) (hangeul 돈, revised don, McCune–Reischauer ton)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墩: Hán Nôm readings: đôn

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