圢

圢 U+5722, 圢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5722 ← 圡 [U+5721] CJK Unified Ideographs 圣 → [U+5723]

Translingual

Han character

圢 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 土一弓 (GMN), four-corner 4112₀, composition ⿰土丁)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 223, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4872
• Dae Jaweon: page 455, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5722

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
圢	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ
町	*tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ, *deːŋʔ
打	*rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ
盯	*rteŋʔ, *rdeŋ
朾	*rteːŋ, *rdeːŋ
丁	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
玎	*rteːŋ, *teːŋ
虰	*rdeːŋ, *tʰeŋ, *teːŋ
揨	*rdeːŋ
釘	*teːŋ, *teːŋs
靪	*teːŋ, *teːŋʔ
仃	*teːŋ
叮	*teːŋ
疔	*teːŋ
頂	*teːŋʔ
奵	*teːŋʔ
耵	*teːŋʔ
酊	*teːŋʔ
葶	*teːŋʔ, *deːŋ
矴	*teːŋs
訂	*teːŋs, *tʰeːŋ, *deːŋʔ
飣	*teːŋs
汀	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋs
艼	*tʰeːŋ, *tʰeːŋʔ
庁	*tʰeːŋ
婷	*deːŋ
停	*deːŋ
聤	*deːŋ
渟	*deːŋ
楟	*deːŋ
亭	*deːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰeːnʔ, *tʰeːŋʔ) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		圢
alternative forms		䵺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǐng (ting³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ting⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǐng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻing³
    • Yale: tǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiing
    • Palladius: тин (tin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ting⁵
    • Yale: tíhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ting⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ting⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɪŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: thenX, thengX

Rime
Character	圢	圢
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	他典切	他鼎切
Baxter	thenX	thengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰenX/	/tʰeŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰenX/	/tʰeŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛnX/	/tʰɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛnX/	/tʰɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/tʰenX/	/tʰeŋX/
Wang Li	/tʰienX/	/tʰieŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰienX/	/tʰieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tiǎn	tǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin2	ting2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰeːnʔ/, /*tʰeːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	圢	圢
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2366	2402
Phonetic component	丁	丁
Rime group	元	耕
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	腆	珽
Old Chinese	/*tʰeːnʔ/	/*tʰeːŋʔ/

Definitions

圢

1. flat, level, smooth

Etymology 2

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 圢 – see 町 (“a ridge or boundary between fields; a field; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 町).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01602

Japanese

Kanji

圢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ちょう (chō)^{←ちやう (tyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kan’yō-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: たいらか (tairaka, 圢らか)