偳

偳 U+5073, 偳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5073 ← 偲 [U+5072] CJK Unified Ideographs 側 → [U+5074]

Translingual

Han character

偳 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人山一月 (OUMB), four-corner 2222₇, composition ⿰亻耑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 111, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 896
• Dae Jaweon: page 238, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 191, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5073

Chinese

simp. and trad.		偳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 偳
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script

Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
揣	*toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍	*toːlʔ, *toːn
惴	*tjols
圌	*djol, *djon
篅	*djol, *djon
瑞	*djols
端	*toːn
剬	*toːn, *tjonʔ
偳	*toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴	*toːn
耑	*toːn
踹	*toːns, *djonʔ
湍	*tʰoːn, *tjon
煓	*tʰoːn
貒	*tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯	*stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓	*tjon
喘	*tʰjonʔ
遄	*djon
輲	*djon
椯	*djon
歂	*djon, *djonʔ
腨	*djonʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duān (duan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi³, dyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duan
    • Wade–Giles: tuan¹
    • Yale: dwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duan
    • Palladius: дуань (duanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeoi³, dyun¹
    • Yale: jeui, dyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey³, dyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu³, dün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯³³/, /tyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: twan, thwan

Rime
Character	偳	偳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	多官切	他端切
Baxter	twan	thwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑn/	/tʰuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/tʷɑn/	/tʰʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑn/	/tʰuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twan/	/tʰwan/
Li Rong	/tuɑn/	/tʰuɑn/
Wang Li	/tuɑn/	/tʰuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuɑn/	/tʰuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duān	tuān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun1	tyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːn/, /*tʰoːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	偳	偳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2502	2510
Phonetic component	耑	耑
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	端	湍
Old Chinese	/*toːn/	/*tʰoːn/

Definitions

偳

1. Only used in 仯偳 (chàoduān, “small”).

Japanese

Kanji

偳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)
• Kun: ちひさい (chihisai); すこし (sukoshi)