巔

See also: 巅 and 巓

巔 U+5DD4, 巔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DD4 ← 巓 [U+5DD3] CJK Unified Ideographs 巕 → [U+5DD5]

Translingual

Han character

巔 (radical 46, 山+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 山十金金 (UJCC), four-corner 2288₆, composition ⿱山顛)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 323, character 6
• Dae Jaweon: page 623, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 808, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5DD4

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Chinese

trad.		巔
simp.		巅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (真) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
寘	*tjels
䡩	*kʰriːn
黰	*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛	*tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇	*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻	*tiːn
槙	*tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨	*tiːn
傎	*tiːn
蹎	*tiːn
厧	*tiːn
巔	*tiːn
癲	*tiːn
瑱	*tʰiːns, *tins
填	*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴	*diːn, *diːns
闐	*diːn, *diːns
磌	*diːn, *tjin
鷏	*diːn
嗔	*diːn, *tʰjin
搷	*diːn
鎮	*tin, *tins
縝	*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
真	*ʔljin
禛	*tjin
稹	*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖	*tjin
鬒	*ʔljinʔ
瞋	*tʰjin
謓	*tʰjin
慎	*djins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tiːn): semantic 山 + phonetic 顛 (OC *tiːn, *tʰiːns).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part”). Cognate with 顛 (OC *tiːn, “top of the head”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diān (dian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din¹
• Min Dong (BUC): diĕng
• Wu (Wiktionary): ti (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: diān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
    • Wade–Giles: tien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
    • IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: din¹
    • Yale: dīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: din¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tiːn⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diĕng
    • IPA ^(key): /tieŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ti (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /ti⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ten/▼

Rime
Character	巔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都年切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ten/
Pan Wuyun	/ten/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛn/
Li Rong	/ten/
Wang Li	/tien/
Bernard Karlgren	/tien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tiːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	巔
Reading #	1/1
No.	17046
Phonetic component	眞
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	顚
Old Chinese	/*tiːn/

Definitions

巔

1. summit of mountain; mountain top; peak
2. highest; top
3. (traditional Chinese medicine, anatomy) head

Compounds

• 山巔／山巅 (shāndiān)
• 巔峰／巅峰 (diānfēng)
• 巔峰狀態／巅峰状态

• 巔峰負載／巅峰负载
• 巔崖／巅崖
• 巔崖峻谷／巅崖峻谷

• 巔疾／巅疾
• 巔越／巅越

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Japanese

Kanji

巔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten)
• Kun: いただき (itadaki)

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Korean

Hanja

巔 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn)

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