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, composition ⿱酋寸)

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		尊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zūn (zun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹, zeon¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chûn
• Min Nan (POJ): chun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: tsun¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuen
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ən⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyun¹, zeon¹
    • Yale: jyūn, jēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹, dzoen¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyːn⁵⁵/, /t͡ɕɵn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sun²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chun
    • Tâi-lô: tsun
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sun³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尊, reconstructed)
Character (尊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 祖昆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡suən/	/t͡suən/	/t͡suən/	/t͡suon/	/t͡swən/	/t͡suən/	/t͡suən/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尊								zūn								‹ tswon ›								/*[ts]ˤu[n]/								honor (v.)
尊								zūn								‹ tswon ›								/*[ts]ˤu[n]/								wine-cup
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
尊					17984					尊					文					2					尊					/*ʔsuːn/

Definitions

尊

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Japanese

Kanji

尊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun)

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