廷

Translingual

Han character

廷 (Kangxi radical 54, 廴+4, 6 strokes in Chinese, 7 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 弓大竹土 (NKHG), four-corner 1240₁, composition ⿺廴𡈼)

Derived terms

• 挺, 庭, 艇, 霆, 蜓, 珽, 綎, 娗, 莛, 筳, 梃, 侹, 頲, 鋌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 353, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9571
• Dae Jaweon: page 667, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 403, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5EF7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		廷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 廷
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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, *l'eːŋʔ) : semantic 廴 + phonetic 𡈼 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋʔ).

Etymology

From 聽 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋ, *l̥ʰeːŋs, “to hear”), i.e. “where hearings take place”. Related to 廳 (OC *l̥ʰeːŋ, “hall”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 廷

1. (historical) palace courtyard; court of a feudal lord
2. (historical) government; governmental office
3. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 庭 (tíng, “courtyard”).

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Japanese

Kanji

廷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. judicial or royal court
2. imperial court
3. government bureau or department

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
• Kun: にわ (niwa, 廷)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. (조정 정) royal court, in the capital. See also: 朝廷.
2. (마을 정) rural court, in the village.

See also

• 庭
• 廳
• 朝

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 廷 (đình)

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