典

See also: 曲

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Etymology

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

Current form resembles the unrelated 曲.

Han character

典 (radical 12 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿月金 (TBC), four-corner 5580₁)

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

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		典

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diǎn (dian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: diǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tien³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dean
    • IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: din²
    • Yale: dín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din²
    • IPA ^(key): /tiːn³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (典, reconstructed)
Character (典), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 多殄切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tenX/	/tienX/	/tenX/	/tenX/	/tɛnX/	/tienX/	/tɛnX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (典, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
典								diǎn								‹ tenX ›								/*tˤə[r]ʔ/								statute, norm
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
典					2342					典					文					1					典					/*tɯːnʔ/

Compounds

• 典当
• 典范
• 典故
• 典籍
• 典借
• 典礼
• 典丽
• 典卖
• 典铺
• 典契
• 典守
• 典刑
• 典型
• 典押
• 典雅
• 典要
• 典则
• 典章
• 典制
• 典质
• 典重
• 典租
• 典則
• 字典

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Japanese

Kanji

典

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: のり (nori), つかさどる (tsukasadoru), さかん (sakan)

Compounds

• 栄典
• 恩典
• 外典
• 楽典
• 旧典
• 経典
• 教典
• 儀典
• 刑典
• 権利章典
• 原典
• 皇典
• 国典
• 古典
• 祭典
• 式典
• 釈典
• 祝典
• 出典
• 字典
• 事典
• 瑞典
• 盛典
• 成典

• 聖典
• 操典
• 大典
• 特典
• 内典
• 仏典
• 文典
• 法典
• 宝典
• 羅典
• 礼典
• 辞典
• 香典
• 典雅
• 典拠
• 典型
• 典故
• 典獄
• 典侍
• 典範
• 典物
• 典薬
• 典礼
• 典麗

Noun

典 (hiragana てん, romaji ten)

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

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Korean

Hanja

典 (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

典 (điển, đến, điếng)

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