点

See also: 點 and 奌

点 U+70B9, 点 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B9 ← 炸 [U+70B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 為 → [U+70BA]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Japanese	点
Simplified	点
Traditional	點

Etymology

Simplified from 點 (黑 → 灬). Note that 黑 changed from being on the left to being 灬, underneath. Compare 黙 (from 默), which retains the 里, and 黒, which is the simplification in isolation.

Current form is graphically 占 + 灬.

Hanzi

点 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 難卜口火 (XYRF) or 卜口火 (YRF), composition ⿱占灬)

Derived characters

• Simplification: 奌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 669, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18980
• Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2198, character 7
• Unihan data for U+70B9

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 点 – see 點 (“dot; spot; speck; place; point; spot; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 點).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	点
Kyūjitai	點

Kanji

点

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 點)

Readings

• Go-on: てん (ten, Jōyō)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: てん (ten, Jōyō)^{←てん (ten, historical)←てむ (temu, ancient)}
• Kun: さす (sasu, 点す); たてる (tateru, 点てる); ちょぼ (chobo, 点)^{←ちよぼ (tyobo, 点, historical)}; つける (tsukeru, 点ける); とぼす (tobosu, 点す); ともす (tomosu, 点す); ぼち (bochi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 濁(だく)点(てん) (dakuten)
• 点(てん)字(じ) (tenji)
• 点(てん)火(か) (tenka)
• 点(てん)検(けん) (tenken)
• 点(てん)穴(けつ) (tenketsu): pressure points
• 点(てん)滅(めつ) (tenmetsu)
• 点(てん)心(しん) (tenshin)
• 点(てん)数(すう) (tensū)
• : own goal
• 半(はん)濁(だく)点(てん) (handakuten)

Kanji in this term
点
てん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
點 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 點／点 (tem^X, “point”).

Counter

点(てん) or 点(counter) • (ten or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|てん]]

1. items or goods

Noun

点(てん) • (ten) 

1. spot, dot
2. score, grade, mark(s)
3. point

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Korean

Hanja

点 • (jeom) (hangeul 점, revised jeom, McCune–Reischauer chŏm, Yale cem)

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