端

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 端
Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

端 (radical 117 立+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿山一月 (YTUMB), four-corner 0212₇, composition ⿰立耑)

1. end, extreme
2. head
3. beginning

References

• KangXi: page 872, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1303, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2714, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7AEF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		端

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duān (duan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tôn
• Min Nan (POJ): toaⁿ / toan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: duān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: tuan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duan
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun¹
    • Yale: dyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tyːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: don´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: don¹
    • IPA: /ton²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toaⁿ / toan
    • Tâi-lô: tuann / tuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvoaf, doafn
    • IPA (Taipei): /tuã⁴⁴/, /tuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tuã⁴⁴/, /tuan⁴⁴/
    • Note: toaⁿ - vernacular; toan - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /tuɑn/▼

Rime
Character	端
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	多官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/tʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twan/
Li Rong	/tuɑn/
Wang Li	/tuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tˤor/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	端
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	duān
Middle Chinese	‹ twan ›
Old Chinese	/*tˤor/
English	tip (n.)
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	端
Reading #	1/1
No.	2500
Phonetic component	耑
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	端
Old Chinese	/*toːn/

Definitions

端

1. to hold something level with hand
2. end

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Japanese

Kanji

端

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: たん (tan)
• Kan’on: たん (tan)
• Kun: はし (hashi), は (ha), はた (hata)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
端
はし Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) はし [hàshí] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕi]

Noun

端 ‎(hiragana はし, romaji hashi)

1. an edge, and end of something

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Korean

Hanja

端 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

端 (đoan)

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