奠

Translingual

Han character

奠 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田大 (TWK), four-corner 8043₀, composition ⿱酋大)

Derived characters

• 𡼓, 𢵫, 𣾇, 𬯚, 橂, 𨗖, 磸, 𨣆, 䥖, 鄭, 𤡽, 𡰙, 㽀, 𠪝, 𭔕, 㞟, 𥳢, 𥂴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 253, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5960
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 546, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5960

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Chinese

trad.		奠
simp. #		奠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 奠
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
奠	*diːŋs
鄭	*deŋs
擲	*deɡ
躑	*deɡ

Oracle bone script: Pictogram (象形) – an alcohol vessel (酉) placed on a mat (一).

In the bronze inscriptions, two strokes (八) were sometimes added above the alcohol vessel, representing overflowing alcohol; this is inherited in the small seal script as 酋. In some bronze inscriptions, two horizontal strokes were sometimes also added below the line representing a mat; the strokes sometimes were changed to something like 八. These two strokes then fused with the mat to give 丌 (a table with two legs) in the small seal script. 丌 later evolved into 大 by process of libian (隸變).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: din⁶
    • Yale: dihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
    • Tâi-lô: tiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: denH

Rime
Character	奠
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	堂練切
Baxter	denH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/denH/
Pan Wuyun	/denH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛnH/
Li Rong	/denH/
Wang Li	/dienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	din6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-tˤe[n]-s/, /*m-tˤe[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*diːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	奠	奠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ denH ›	‹ denH ›
Old Chinese	/*N-tˁe[n]-s/	/*m-tˁe[n]-s/
English	be fixed (v.i.)	set forth (v.t.)
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	奠
Reading #	1/1
No.	2351
Phonetic component	奠
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	電
Old Chinese	/*diːŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 奠

1. to make offerings to the dead, to libate
2. to establish

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìng (ding⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dìng
    • Wade–Giles: ting⁴
    • Yale: dìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinq
    • Palladius: дин (din)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tengH

Rime
Character	奠
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	丁定切
Baxter	tengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/teŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/teŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛjŋH/
Li Rong	/teŋH/
Wang Li	/tieŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tieŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ding3

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 奠

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 飣／饤 (dìng).
2. fake

Pronunciation 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 奠 – see 鄭 (“proper noun sense”). (This character is an ancient form of 鄭).

Notes

Usage seen in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions.

Pronunciation 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 奠 – see 停 (“to stop; to halt; to stay; to remain; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 停).

Pronunciation 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 奠 – see 尊 (“to respect; to revere; to venerate; to honor; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 尊).

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Japanese

Kanji

奠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten), でん (den), てい (tei)
• Kun: まつる (matsuru), さだめる (sadameru)

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Korean

Hanja

奠 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 奠 (điện)

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