尊

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 酋 (“vinegar”) + 寸 (“hand”) – to give 寸 an offering 酋 – respect, veneration.

Han character[edit]

尊 (radical 41 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田木戈 (TWDI), four-corner 80346, composition ⿱酋寸)

  1. respect, revere, venerate
  2. honor

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 295, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7445
  • Dae Jaweon: page 585, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 509, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5C0A

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

尊 (Jyutping zeon1, zyun1, Yale jeun1, jyun1)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
尊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

尊 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

尊 (hangeul 존 (jon), revised jon, McCune-Reischauer chon)

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

尊 (Pinyin zūn (zun1), Wade-Giles tsun1)

Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

尊 (*tzuən)

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun)

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