牡丹

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Chinese

male
red; pellet; powder
red; pellet; powder; cinnabar
 
simp. and trad.
(牡丹) 		牡 丹
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牡丹

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 牡 丹
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 莫厚切 都寒切
Baxter muwX tan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/məuX/ /tɑn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/məuX/ /tɑn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/məuX/ /tɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/məwX/ /tan/
Li
Rong 		/muX/ /tɑn/
Wang
Li 		/məuX/ /tɑn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mə̯uX/ /tɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǒu dān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mau5 daan1

Noun

牡丹

  1. tree peony (Paeonia sect. Moutan)
  2. (obsolete) marlberry

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (牡丹):

Others:

Proper noun

牡丹

  1. (～區) Mudan (a district of Heze, Shandong, China)
  2. (～鄉) Mudan (a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan)

Descendants

Japanese

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
牡 丹
ぼ
Jinmeiyō 		たん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 牡丹 (MC muwX tan).

Pronunciation

Noun

牡(ぼ)丹(たん) or 牡丹(ボタン) • (botan) 

  1. a peony, especially the Chinese tree peony, Paeonia suffruticosa
    Synonyms: 国色 (kokushoku), 天香国色 (tenkō kokushoku), 隣草 (tonarigusa), 名取草 (natorigusa), 富貴草 (fūkigusa), 深見草 (fukamigusa)
  2. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of peony petals and twigs
  3. (historical) boar meat
  5. (card games, hanafuda) The suit of peony in a hanafuda deck, representing the month of June in most regions, or November in games from the Nagoya region
Derived terms
Idioms
See also
Hanafuda suits in Japanese · 花札のスート (hanafuda no sūto) (layout · text)
1月 (ichigatsu) 2月 (nigatsu) 3月 (sangatsu) 4月 (shigatsu) 5月 (gogatsu) 6月 (rokugatsu)
松 (matsu) 梅 (ume) 桜 (sakura) 藤 (fuji)
黒豆 (kuromame) 		菖蒲 (ayame, shōbu)
杜若 (kakitsubata) 		牡丹 (botan)
7月 (shichigatsu) 8月 (hachigatsu) 9月 (kugatsu) 10月 (jūgatsu) 11月 (jūichigatsu) 12月 (jūnigatsu)
萩 (hagi)
赤豆 (akamame) 		芒 (susuki)
坊主 (bōzu) 		菊 (kiku) 紅葉 (momiji) 柳 (yanagi)
雨 (ame) 		桐 (kiri)

Proper noun

牡(ぼ)丹(たん) • (Botan) 

  1. a place name
  2. a surname
  3. a female given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
牡 丹
ぼう
Jinmeiyō 		たん
Grade: S
on'yomi

/botan/ → /boːtan/

Long-pronounced form, replacing the kanyōon reading bo with the kan'on reading of bō. Primarily used in haiku, for example.

Pronunciation

Noun

牡(ぼう)丹(たん) or 牡丹(ボウタン) • (bōtan) 

  1. a peony
  2. a 小袖 (kosode, “short-sleeved robe”) worn by maidservants of the Imperial Palace
  3. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
牡丹

Noun

牡丹 • (moran) (hangeul 모란)

  1. hanja form? of 모란 (“peony”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
牡丹

Noun

牡丹

  1. chữ Hán form of mẫu đơn (“peony”)
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