定

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 正 (form closer to 疋).

Han character

定 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一卜人 (JMYO), four-corner 3080₁, composition ⿱宀⿱一龰)

1. decide, settle, fix

Derived characters

• 淀 錠

References

• KangXi: page 283, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7109
• Dae Jaweon: page 559, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 918, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5B9A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

定 (Jyutping deng6, ding6, Yale deng6, ding6)

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Japanese

Kanji

定

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: てい (tei), じょう (jō)
• Kun: さだめる (sadameru), さだまる (sadamaru), さだめ (sadame)

Compounds

• 定冠詞 (ていかんし, teikanshi)
• 設定 (せってい, settei, “setup, creation, settings”)
• 勘定 (かんじょう, kanjō, “bill, check”)
• 予定 (よてい, yotei, “schedule”)
• 定義 (ていぎ, teigi, “definition”)

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Korean

Hanja

定 (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

定 (Pinyin dìng (ding4), Wade-Giles ting⁴)

Compounds

• 定律
• 一定

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Middle Chinese

Han character

定 (*dhèng)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

定 (POJ tēng (teng⁷), tiāⁿ (tiaⁿ⁷))

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Vietnamese

Han character

定 (định)