滇

滇 U+6EC7, 滇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EC7 ← 滆 [U+6EC6] CJK Unified Ideographs 滈 → [U+6EC8]

Translingual

Etymology

A phonosemantic compound of Chinese semantic 氵 ("water") + phonetic 真 (zhēn, reconstructed Old Chinese *tin)

Han character

滇 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水十月金 (EJBC), four-corner 3418₁, composition ⿰氵真)

1. Lake Dian near Kunming, Yunnan, in China
2. (abbreviation) Yunnan province

Usage notes

The abbreviation may also include Guizhou Province, as it was united with the area before 1413.

References

• KangXi: page 642, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18010
• Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1694, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6EC7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

滇 (Yale din1, tin4)

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Japanese

Kanji

滇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten), しん (shin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

滇 (Pinyin Diān (Dian1), tián (tian2), zhēn (zhen1), Wade-Giles Tien¹, t'ien², chen¹)

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Synonyms

• 昆明湖 (lake)

Derived terms

• 滇池

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Vietnamese

Han character

滇 (điền, chan, tràn, dàn, giàn)

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