椴

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椴	U+6934, 椴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6934

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

椴 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木竹十水 (DHJE), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿰木段)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 537, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15075
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1251, character 8
Unihan data for U+6934

Chinese

simp. and trad.		椴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (段) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
鍛	*toːns
腶	*toːns
碫	*toːns
瑖	*toːns
緞	doːnʔ, doːns
段	*doːns
椴	*doːns
毈	*doːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): duàn (duan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: duàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: duàn
  - Wade–Giles: tuan⁴
  - Yale: dwàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duann
  - Palladius: дуань (duanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dyun⁶
  - Yale: dyuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dyn⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dün⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn²²/

Middle Chinese: dwanH

Rime
Character	椴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒玩切
Baxter	dwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/dʷɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/duɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwan^H/
Li Rong	/duɑn^H/
Wang Li	/duɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*doːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	椴
Reading #	1/1
No.	2535
Phonetic component	段
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	段
Old Chinese	/*doːns/

Definitions

椴

linden, lime tree

Japanese

Kanji

椴

(Hyōgai kanji)

linden, lime tree

Readings

Go-on: だん (dan)
Kan-on: たん (tan)
Kun: むくげ (mukuge, 椴)、くい (kui)、とどまつ (todomatsu)

Korean

Hanja

椴 (eum 단 (dan))

linden, lime tree

Vietnamese

Han character

椴: Hán Nôm readings: đoạn

linden, lime tree

References

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