尊

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 酋 (“vinegar”) + 寸 (“hand”) – to give 寸 an offering 酋 – respect, veneration.

Han character

尊 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田木戈 (TWDI), four-corner 8034₆)

1. respect, revere, venerate
2. honor

Derived characters

• 樽, 蹲, 僔, 墫, 嶟, 燇, 繜, 譐, 鐏, 鱒, 遵, 噂, 撙, 鷷

References

• KangXi: page 295, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7445
• Dae Jaweon: page 585, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 509, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5C0A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

尊 (Yale jeun1, jyun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

尊 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そん (son)
• Kun: たっとい (tattoi), とうとい (toutoi), たっとぶ (tattobu)

Proper noun

尊 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

尊 (hangeul 존, revised jon, McCune-Reischauer chon)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

尊 (pinyin zūn (zun1), Wade-Giles tsun¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

尊 (*tzuən)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun)