庭

Translingual

Han character

庭 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈弓大土 (INKG), four-corner 0024₁, composition ⿸广廷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9337
• Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 882, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5EAD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (廷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蜓	*l'eːnʔ, *l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
涏	*l'eːns, *l'eːŋʔ
綎	*l̥ʰeːŋ, *l'eːŋ
珽	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ
脡	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ
侹	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *l̥ʰeːŋs
頲	*l'eːŋʔ
廷	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
庭	*l'eːŋ
鼮	*l'eːŋ
莛	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
筳	*l'eːŋ
霆	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
娗	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
挺	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
艇	*l'eːŋʔ
鋌	*l'eːŋʔ
梃	*l'eːŋʔ
誔	*l'eːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'eːŋ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 廷 (OC *l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 庭

1. courtyard
2. front yard
3. big hall
4. law court
5. middle of the forehead

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Japanese

Kanji

庭

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. courtyard
2. garden
3. yard

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
• Kun: にわ (niwa, 庭, Jōyō)^{←には (nifa, 庭, historical)}

Compounds

• 庭園(ていえん) (teien, “garden”)
• 庭球(ていきゅう) (teikyū, “tennis”)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
庭
にわ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

/nipa/ → /nifa/ → /niwa/

From Old Japanese.

Noun

庭(にわ) • (niwa) ^{←には (nifa)?}

1. garden
   • 1235, Shinchokusen Wakashū (book 16, poem 1052; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 96)

     花(はな)さそふ嵐(あらし)の庭(には)の雪(ゆき)ならでふりゆくものはわが身(み)なりけり

     hana sasou arashi no niwa no yuki nara de furi yuku mono wa waga mi nari keri

     It entices the flowers―the storm―but though the garden's white, it is not snow, and what it is that's scattering are, in fact, the years of my life!

   庭(にわ)で美味(おい)しい魚(さかな)を食(た)べた。

   Niwa de oishii sakana o tabeta.

   I ate a delicious fish in the garden.

2. (historical) place where something is done (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (regional) at the entrance of a house, a dirt floor (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
4. Synonym of 家庭 (katei, “home; family”)
5. wide sea

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 庭(にわ)木(き) (niwaki, “garden tree”)
• 庭(にわ)師(し) (niwashi, “gardener”)
• 庭弄(にわいじ)り (niwa-ijiri), 庭(にわ)仕(し)事(ごと) (niwa-shigoto, “gardening”)
• 庭(にわ)つ鳥(とり) (niwa tsu tori, old name for niwatori; epithet for "chicken")
• 接骨木(ニワトコ) (niwatoko, “Japanese elderberry”)
• 鶏(にわとり) (niwatori, “chicken”)
• 場(ば) (ba, “place; occasion; field”)

Coordinate terms

• 公園(こうえん) (kōen): park

Proper noun

庭(にわ) • (Niwa) ^{←には (nifa)?}

1. a female given name
2. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

庭 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 庭 (đình, thính)

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