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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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Japanese stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意):  (bamboo, books) +  (table) – (official) books on a table.

Current form resembles the unrelated .

[edit] Han character

(radical 12 +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿月金 (TBC), four-corner 55801)

  1. law, canon
  2. documentation
  3. classic, scripture

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 128, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1474
  • Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 247, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5178

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale din2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(hiragana てん, romaji ten)

  1. ceremony
    • 華燭
      かしょくのてん
      kashoku no ten
      wedding ceremony
  2. rule

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin diǎn (dian3), Wade-Giles tien3)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*děn)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(điển, đến, điếng)

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