尊

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尊 U+5C0A, 尊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C0A
← 尉
[U+5C09] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尋 →
[U+5C0B]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 尊

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 尊
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
尊-oracle.svg 尊-bronze.svg 尊-seal.svg 尊-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (尊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尊 *ʔsuːn
樽 *ʔsuːn
罇 *ʔsuːn
嶟 *ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
繜 *ʔsuːn
撙 *ʔsuːnʔ
噂 *ʔsuːnʔ
譐 *ʔsuːnʔ
僔 *ʔsuːnʔ
蹲 *zuːn
鱒 *zuːnʔ, *zuːns
鐏 *zuːns
遵 *ʔsun
鷷 *ʔsun, *zun
墫 *sʰun
竴 *sʰun

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 尊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 祖昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡suən/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡suon/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡swən/
Li
Rong 		/t͡suən/
Wang
Li 		/t͡suən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zūn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尊 尊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zūn zūn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tswon › ‹ tswon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ts]ˤu[n]/ /*[ts]ˤu[n]/
English honor (v.) wine-cup

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 尊
Reading # 1/1
No. 17984
Phonetic
component 		尊
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		尊
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsuːn/

Definitions[edit]

尊

  1. to respect; to revere; to venerate
  2. to honor

Synonyms[edit]

  • (respect): 敬 (jìng), 崇 (chóng), 重 (zhòng)
  • (respectable): 崇 (chóng)

Antonyms[edit]

  • (respect): 鄙 (bǐ), 蔑 (miè), 藐 (miǎo)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 尊

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

尊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. noble
  2. god, exalted, deity who happens to be an Amatsukami and an ancestral deity (sōjin) of the Imperial House; it is then read "Mikoto".

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

尊 (hiragana たかし, rōmaji Takashi)

  1. A male given name

尊 (hiragana たける, rōmaji Takeru)

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

尊 • (jon)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 존 (revised: jon, McCune–Reischauer: chon)
    • Name (hangeul): 높을 (revised: nopeun, McCune–Reischauer: nop'ŭn, Yale: nophun)
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun, tặng)

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