甸

Translingual

Han character

甸 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心田 (PW), four-corner 2762₀, composition ⿹勹田)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21732
• Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2528, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7538

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		甸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甸
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
田	*l'iːŋ
佃	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畋	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
鈿	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
沺	*l'iːŋ
甸	*l'iːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'iːŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn, tián (dian⁴, tian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ, ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶ / din¹ / tin⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien
• Eastern Min (BUC): diêng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiān / tián
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶di

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tián
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²
    • Yale: tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: din⁶ / din¹ / tin⁴
    • Yale: dihn / dīn / tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶ / din¹ / tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶ / din¹ / tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/, /tiːn⁵⁵/, /tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
    • Tâi-lô: tiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dien
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tián
    • Tâi-lô: tián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diern
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶di
    • MiniDict: di^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³di
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²³/

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• Middle Chinese: denH

Rime
Character	甸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	堂練切
Baxter	denH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/denH/
Pan Wuyun	/denH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛnH/
Li Rong	/denH/
Wang Li	/dienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	din6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤiŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ denH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁiŋ-s/
English	open space outside city
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	甸
Reading #	1/1
No.	12399
Phonetic component	田
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	電
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甸

1. suburbs of capital
2. govern
3. crops

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Japanese

Kanji

甸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: かり (kari)

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Korean

Hanja

甸 • (jeon, seung) (hangeul 전, 승)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甸 (điện, điền)

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