盹

盹 U+76F9, 盹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76F9 ← 相 [U+76F8] CJK Unified Ideographs 盺 → [U+76FA]

Translingual

Han character

盹 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山心山 (BUPU), four-corner 6501₇, composition ⿰目屯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 801, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23158
• Dae Jaweon: page 1217, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2472, character 11
• Unihan data for U+76F9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		盹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
躉	*tuːnʔ
窀	*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
沌	*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
盹	*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
頓	*tuːns
扽	*tuːns
黗	*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
吨	*tʰuːnʔ
屯	*duːn, *tun
飩	*duːn
豘	*duːn
軘	*duːn
坉	*duːn
邨	*duːn, *stʰuːn
忳	*duːn
芚	*duːn
庉	*duːn, *duːnʔ
囤	*duːnʔ
迍	*tun
杶	*tʰun
瑃	*tʰun
椿	*tʰun
偆	*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
肫	*tjun
訰	*tjun, *tjuns
純	*tjunʔ, *djun
春	*tʰjun
蠢	*tʰjunʔ
踳	*tʰjunʔ
惷	*tʰjunʔ
蒓	*djun
賰	*hljunʔ
鬊	*hljuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːnʔ, *tjuns) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǔn (dun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deon⁶ / zeon³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dong³ / duong³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tùn / tuh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǔn
    • Wade–Giles: tun³
    • Yale: dwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doen
    • Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: deon⁶ / zeon³
    • Yale: deuhn / jeun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doen⁶ / dzoen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dên⁶ / zên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn²²/, /t͡sɵn³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: duong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuoŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùn
    • Tâi-lô: tùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duxn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tun²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tun⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tuh
    • Tâi-lô: tuh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tuʔ³²/

Note: vernacular (俗).

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• Middle Chinese: tsywinH

Rime
Character	盹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之閏切
Baxter	tsywinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷinH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwinH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuĕnH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeon3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuːnʔ/, /*tjuns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盹	盹
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12540	12571
Phonetic component	屯	屯
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime		稕
Old Chinese	/*tuːnʔ/	/*tjuns/
Notes	頓晚起分化字， 五音集韻造爲目合字， 丁本切

Definitions

盹

1. doze; nap; nod

   打盹  ―  dǎdǔn  ―  to doze off; to nod off

Compounds

• 厾龜／厾龟 (tuh-ku) (Min Nan)
• 打盹 (dǎdǔn)
• 打盹兒／打盹儿 (dǎdǔnr)
• 盹兒／盹儿
• 盹睡
• 瞇盹兒／眯盹儿
• 立盹行眠
• 行眠立盹
• 衝盹兒／冲盹儿

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhūn (zhun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhun
    • Wade–Giles: chun¹
    • Yale: jwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juen
    • Palladius: чжунь (čžunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ən⁵⁵/

Definitions

盹

1. ^† Alternative form of 𥇜

References

• “Entry #5245”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “盹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 57.

Japanese

Kanji

盹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅん (shun)

Korean

Hanja

盹 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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