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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木十月金 (DJBC), four-corner 44981, composition)

  1. twig
  2. an ornamental evergreen (Podocarpus)

References


Chinese

trad. /
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjels
*kʰriːn
*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
*tiːn, *tʰiːns
*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
*tiːn
*tiːn, *tjinʔ
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tʰiːns, *tins
*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *tjin
*diːn
*diːn, *tʰjin
*diːn
*tin, *tins
*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
*ʔljin
*tjin
*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
*tjin
*ʔljinʔ
*tʰjin
*tʰjin
*djins

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ten/
Pan
Wuyun
/ten/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛn/
Li
Rong
/ten/
Wang
Li
/tien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17041 17076
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tiːn/ /*tjinʔ/
Notes

Noun

  1. the tip of a tree

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. an ornamental evergreen tree, particularly cedar or cypress

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeon) (hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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