摶

See also: 抟

摶 U+6476, 摶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6476 ← 摵 [U+6475] CJK Unified Ideographs 摷 → [U+6477]

Translingual

Han character

摶 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+11, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 手十戈戈 (QJII), four-corner 5504₃, composition ⿰扌專)

1. roll around with hand
2. model

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 452, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12642
• Dae Jaweon: page 802, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1942, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6476

Chinese

trad.		摶
simp.		抟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
竱	*toːn, *tjonʔ
團	*doːn
摶	*doːn, *doːn, *donʔ
篿	*doːn, *tjon
慱	*doːn
剸	*doːn, *tjonʔ, *tjons
鄟	*doːn, *tjon, *djonʔ
漙	*doːn
鷒	*doːn, *tjon
轉	*tonʔ, *tons
傳	*tons, *don, *dons
囀	*tons
縳	*donʔ, *dons
專	*tjon
磚	*tjon
甎	*tjon
塼	*tjon
嫥	*tjon
膞	*tjon, *tjonʔ, *djonʔ
鱄	*tjon, *tjonʔ
蓴	*djun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 專 (OC *tjon).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuán (tuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻuan²
    • Yale: twán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twan
    • Palladius: туань (tuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tyun⁴
    • Yale: tyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dwan, drjwenX

Rime
Character	摶	摶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	度官切	持兖切
Baxter	dwan	drjwenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duɑn/	/ɖˠiuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/dʷɑn/	/ɖʷᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/duɑn/	/ȡiuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwan/	/ɖwianX/
Li Rong	/duɑn/	/ȡjuɛnX/
Wang Li	/duɑn/	/ȡĭwɛnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuɑn/	/ȡʱi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuán	zhuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tyun4	zyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤon/

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːn/, /*donʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	摶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tuán
Middle Chinese	‹ dwan ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁon/
English	round; make round
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	摶	摶	摶
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	17666	17673	17679
Phonetic component	專	專	專
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	團	團	篆
Old Chinese	/*doːn/	/*doːn/	/*donʔ/

Definitions

摶

1. knead and roll into a ball
2. to rely on, to depend on, by means of, thanks to, something that one relies on

   • 摶扶搖而上(者?)九萬里。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     抟扶摇而上(者?)九万里。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Tuán fú yáo ér shàng (zhě?) jiǔ wàn lǐ. [Pinyin]

     Then it ascends on a whirlwind 90,000 li.

3. aggregate/aggregation, combine/combination

   • 摶氣如神，萬物(被/備?)存。 [MSC, trad.]
     抟气如神，万物(被/备?)存。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Neiye 內業

     Tuán qì rú shén, wànwù (bèi / bèi?) cún. [Pinyin]

     concentrating the breath as a spirit, myriad entities attain(?) existence.

Compounds

• 弄月摶風 / 弄月抟风
• 搓粉摶朱 / 搓粉抟朱
• 摶搦 / 抟搦
• 摶摶 / 抟抟 (tuántuán)
• 摶擊掀發 / 抟击掀发
• 摶柱乘梁 / 抟柱乘梁
• 摶沙 / 抟沙
• 摶沙作飯 / 抟沙作饭
• 摶沙嚼蠟 / 抟沙嚼蜡
• 摶砂弄汞 / 抟砂弄汞
• 摶砂煉汞 / 抟砂炼汞
• 摶風 / 抟风
• 摶風板 / 抟风板
• 摶飯 / 抟饭
• 摶香弄粉 / 抟香弄粉
• 陳摶 / 陈抟
• 鵬摶 / 鹏抟

References

• https://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/dictView.jsp?ID=2865
• https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E7%AE%A1%E5%AD%90/%E7%AC%AC49%E7%AF%87%E5%85%A7%E6%A5%AD
• https://ctext.org/guanzi/nei-ye
• Roth, Harold D. (1999), Original Tao: Inward Training (內業) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism, Columbia University Press

Japanese

Kanji

摶

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: まるい (marui, 摶い)

Vietnamese

Han character

摶: Hán Nôm readings: đoàn

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References

• Nom Foundation