展

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – laying out goods for sale. The top 尸 is the roof, the middle is derived from 㠭 – four 工 shapes in a square (goods for sale), while the bottom is cognate to 衣 (“cloth”) – an unfurled cloth, with goods on top (or the cloth itself for sale).

Han character

展 (radical 44 尸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸廿女 (STV), four-corner 7723₂)

1. open, unfold
2. stretch, extend

Related characters

• 衣

See also

• 孃 (graphically similar lower right component)

References

• KangXi: page 302, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7715
• Dae Jaweon: page 599, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 974, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5C55

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		展

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǎn (zhan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chán/tién
• Min Nan (POJ): tián

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chan³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaan
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa̠n²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zin²
    • Yale: jín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chán/tién
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡san³¹/, /ti̯en³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tián
    • Tâi-lô: tián
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (展, reconstructed)
Character (展), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 知演切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈiᴇnX/	/ȶi̯ɛnX/	/ȶiɛnX/	/ʈiɛnX/	/ʈianX/	/ȶĭɛnX/	/ȶjænX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (展, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
展								zhǎn								‹ trjenX ›								/*trenʔ/								roll over; unfold
展								zhǎn								‹ trjenH ›								/*tra[n]-s/								ritual robe
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
展					16782					展					元					2					展					/*tenʔ/
展					16785					展					元					2					𩥇					/*tens/					原從古體四工，集韻或體作此

Compounds

• 展開

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Japanese

Kanji

展

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. unfold
2. expand

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: つらねる (tsuraneru), のべる (noberu), のびる (nobiru)

Compounds

• 展覧会 (てんらんかい, tenrankai, “exhibition”)

Proper noun

展 (hiragana まこと, romaji Makoto)

1. A male given name

Suffix

展 (hiragana てん, romaji -ten)

1. exhibition

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

展 (triển, chẽn)

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