點

See also 奌, and 点

Translingual

simpl.		点
trad.		點

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 黑 (“black”) + phonetic 占 – black dots.

Han character

點 (radical 203 黑+5, 17 strokes, cangjie input 田火卜口 (WFYR), four-corner 6136₀)

1. dot, speck, spot
2. point, degree
3. how (Cantonese) - see 點解

Descendants

• 点 (奌)

References

• KangXi: page 1519, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48083
• Dae Jaweon: page 2053, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4745, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9EDE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

點 (simplified 点, jyutping dim2, Yale dim2)

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Japanese

Kanji

點

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: ぼち (bochi)

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Korean

Hanja

點 (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune-Reischauer chŏm, Yale cem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

點 (simplified 点, pinyin diǎn (dian3), duò (duo4), zhān (zhan1), Wade-Giles tien³, to⁴, chan¹)

Compounds

• 點心

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Vietnamese

Han character

點 (điểm, chấm, chúm, đém, đếm, đóm, đêm)

References

• Nom Foundation