尊

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

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 樽, 蹲, 僔, 墫, 嶟, 燇, 繜, 譐, 鐏, 鱒, 遵, 噂, 撙, 鷷

Synonyms

• (respect): 敬, 崇, 重
• (respectable): 崇

Antonyms

• (respect): 鄙, 蔑, 藐

References

• 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		尊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尊
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zūn (zun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹, zeon¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chûn
• Min Nan (POJ): chun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: tsun¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuen
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyun¹, zeon¹
    • Yale: jyūn, jēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹, dzoen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jun¹, zên¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyːn⁵⁵/, /t͡ɕɵn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: zun´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zun¹
    • IPA: /t͡sun²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chun
    • Tâi-lô: tsun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zwn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sun⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡suən/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ˤu[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːn/

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

尊

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

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Japanese

Kanji

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

• Goon: そん (son)
• Kan’on: そん (son)
• On: る (ru)
• Kun: たけ (take), うやまう (uyamau), とうとぶ (tōtobu), たっとぶ (tattobu), とうとい (tōtoi), たっとい (tattoi), みこと (mikoto)

Compounds

• (respect): 尊敬, 尊称, 尊崇, 尊重

Proper noun

尊 (hiragana たかし, rōmaji Takashi)

1. A male given name

尊 (hiragana たける, rōmaji Takeru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

Han character

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun, tặng)

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