燈

See also: 灯

Translingual

Han character

燈 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火弓人廿 (FNOT), four-corner 9281₈, composition ⿰火登)

References

• KangXi: page 682, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19402
• Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2238, character 11
• Unihan data for U+71C8

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Chinese

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trad.		燈
simp.		灯

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 (“candlelight”) + phonetic 登

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dēng (deng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dang¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tên
• Min Nan (POJ): teng
• Wu (WT Romanisation): ten (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: têng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deng
    • IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dang¹
    • Yale: dāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dang¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tên
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ten²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teng
    • Tâi-lô: ting
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɪŋ³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: ten (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /təɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (燈, reconstructed)
Character (燈), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 登 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 都滕切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/təŋ/	/təŋ/	/təŋ/	/təŋ/	/təŋ/	/təŋ/	/təŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (燈, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
燈								dēng								‹ tong ›								/*k-tˤəŋ/								lamp
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
燈					2171					登					蒸					0										/*tɯːŋ/					鐙後起分化字

Noun

燈

1. lamp
2. lantern

Compounds

Derived terms

• 日光燈／日光灯

• 照明燈／照明灯

• 燈光／灯光

• 燈塔／灯塔

• 燈泡／灯泡

• 燈源／灯源

• 電燈／电灯

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Japanese

Kanji

燈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: ともしび (tomoshibi), ひ (hi)

Compounds

• 燈籠 (とうろう)

Suffix

燈 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 灯, hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. light

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Korean

Hanja

燈 (deung) (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune-Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燈 (đăng)

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