奠

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 酋 + 丌

Han character

奠 (radical 37 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田大 (TWK), four-corner 8043₀, composition ⿱酋大)

1. pay respect
2. settle

Derived terms

• 鄭

References

• KangXi: page 253, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5960
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 546, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5960

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		奠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: din⁶
    • Yale: dihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (奠, reconstructed)
Character (奠), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 堂練切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/denH/	/dʱienH/	/denH/	/denH/	/dɛnH/	/dienH/	/dɛnH/
Character (奠), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 青 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 丁定切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/teŋH/	/tieŋH/	/teŋH/	/teŋH/	/tɛjŋH/	/tieŋH/	/tɛŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (奠, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
奠								diàn								‹ denH ›								/*N-tˤe[n]-s/								be fixed (v.i.)
奠								diàn								‹ denH ›								/*m-tˤe[n]-s/								set forth (v.t.)
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
奠					2351					奠					眞					2					電					/*diːŋs/

Compounds

• 奠定

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Japanese

Kanji

奠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: てん (ten), でん (den), てい (tei)
• Kun: まつる (matsuru), さだめる (sadameru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

奠 (điện)

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