定

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *teːŋs, *deːŋs): semantic 宀 + phonetic 正 ‎(OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs) (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)

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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		定

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìng (ding⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ding⁶, deng⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thin
• Min Nan (POJ): tēng / tiāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ting⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dinq
    • IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ding⁶, deng⁶
    • Yale: dihng, dehng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ding⁶, deng⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪŋ²²/, /tɛːŋ²²/
    • Note: deng6 - to reserve.
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thin
    • Hakka Romanization System: tin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tin⁴
    • IPA: /tʰin⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēng / tiāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tīng / tiānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deng, dvia
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ³³/, /tiã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ²²/, /tiã²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /deŋ^H/, /teŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	定	定
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	青 (125)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	徒徑切	丁定切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/deŋH/	/teŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/deŋH/	/teŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛŋH/	/tɛŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛjŋH/	/tɛjŋH/
Li Rong	/deŋH/	/teŋH/
Wang Li	/dieŋH/	/tieŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱieŋH/	/tieŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dìng	dìng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*N-tˤeŋ-s/, /*m-tˤeŋ-s/, /*tˤeŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*teːŋs/, /*deːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	定	定	定
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dìng	dìng	dìng
Middle Chinese	‹ dengH ›	‹ dengH ›	‹ tengH ›
Old Chinese	/*N-tˤeŋ-s/	/*m-tˤeŋ-s/	/*tˤeŋ-s/
English	become fixed; settled (v.i.)	make fixed, settle (v.t.)	ready-cooked (food)
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	定	定
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17181	17187
Phonetic component	正	正
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	矴	定
Old Chinese	/*teːŋs/	/*deːŋs/
Notes	見詩	小徐正聲

Definitions

定

1. to determine, to decide, to settle, to fix

Compounds

• 定律 (dìnglǜ)
• 一定 (yīdìng)
• 設定／设定 (shèdìng)

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Japanese

Kanji

定

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. determine, fix, establish, decide

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: てい (tei)
• 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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Vietnamese

Han character

定 (định)

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