端端

Chinese

		end; extremity; item end; extremity; item; port; to hold something level with both hands; to carry; regular	end; extremity; item end; extremity; item; port; to hold something level with both hands; to carry; regular
simp. and trad. (端端)		端	端

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duānduān

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢ ㄉㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun¹ dyun¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duānduān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢ ㄉㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duanduan
    • Wade–Giles: tuan¹-tuan¹
    • Yale: dwān-dwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duanduan
    • Palladius: дуаньдуань (duanʹduanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵⁵ tu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun¹ dyun¹
    • Yale: dyūn dyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn¹ dyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün¹ dün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn⁵⁵ tyːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: twan twan

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
Baxter	twan
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤor  tˤor/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːn  toːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	端
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	duān
Middle Chinese	‹ twan ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁor/
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/

Adjective

端端

1. (literary, ideophonic) straight; not slanting; upright
2. (literary, ideophonic) serious; dignified

Derived terms

• 好端端 (hǎoduānduān)
• 無端端／无端端 (wúduānduān)
• 端端正正
• 端端的的

 

Adverb

端端

1. (now dated) just; exactly; precisely

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 恰巧 (“by chance; as it happens”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		會, 適
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		恰巧, 恰好, 恰恰, 碰巧, 剛好, 剛巧, 正好, 正巧, 趕巧, 湊巧
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	正好, 碰巧, 可可兒的
	Langfang	正好兒
	Harbin	正巧
Jilu Mandarin	Tangshan	碰巧兒
	Cangzhou	正巧兒
	Baoding	碰巧
	Shijiazhuang	正巧兒
	Jinan	正好, 剛好, 碰巧, 湊巧
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	趕巧兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	碰巧, 湊巧
	Daming	正好兒
	Wanrong	剛, 妙, 可妙, 湊妙
	Xi'an	正好, 剛好, 剛好兒, 妙的
	Xining	正好
	Xuzhou	驗好, 驗好兒, 驗巧, 適巧
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	湊巧, 恰巧
	Lanzhou	將巧
	Ürümqi	剛好, 正好, 剛巧, 正巧, 碰巧, 正, 將好兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	端端, 剛好, 將好, 恰好, 恰恰
	Wuhan	正巧, 恰恰, 神神
	Guiyang	恰巧, 湊巧, 碰巧
	Kunming	剛好, 恰恰的
	Liuzhou	扣到, 扣扣, 正, 碰巧
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	正, 將將
	Yangzhou	剛好, 剛剛好, 齊巧, 正好, 將好
	Nantong	碰巧
	Hefei	正好, 將好, 碰巧
Cantonese	Guangzhou	碰啱, 撞啱, 湊啱, 啱好, 啱, 啱啱, 啱啱好, 啱啱線
	Hong Kong	咁啱, 撞啱, 碰啱, 啱啱
	Macau	啱啱
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	啱啱好
	Foshan	啱好
	Foshan (Sanshui)	啱啱好
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	啱算
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	啱算
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	啱啱
	Taishan	碰啱
	Heshan (Yayao)	啱啱好
	Dongguan	啱先
	Yangjiang	哏好, 啱
	Xinyi	啱好, 啱啱
Gan	Nanchang	合適, 碰巧
	Lichuan	剛好
	Pingxiang	嵌嵌, 嵌嵌仔, 嵌好, 合式, 緊光
Hakka	Meixian	啱好, 啱啱
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	啱啱
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	啱算
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	啱啱
	Yudu	將好, 剛好
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	堵好, 堵堵好
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	堵好, 堵堵好
Huizhou	Jixi	剛好
Jin	Taiyuan	剛好, 可可底, 正好, 正巧
	Xinzhou	正好, 嵌好, 嵌好好兒, 嵌嵌兒, 可好, 可好好兒, 可可兒
	Zhangjiakou	剛巧
	Handan	正好兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	頃頃好
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	正正好, 堵堵好
Southern Min	Xiamen	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 注死, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄巧, 拄拄, 拄拄仔好
	Quanzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 湊拄歁, 千千, 千拄千, 拄千
	Zhangzhou	對對, 拄好, 拄仔好, 拄欸好, 注死, 拄, 死病, 湊拄歁, 湊拄歁仔, 湊巧, 湊歁, 湊歁仔, 千千, 千拄千, 拄仔, 拄拄, 拄拄仔
	Kaohsiung	拄好
	Yilan	拄好
	Changhua (Lukang)	拄好
	Taichung	拄好
	Taichung (Wuqi)	拄好
	Tainan	拄好
	Taitung	拄好
	Hsinchu	拄仔好
	Penghu (Magong)	拄好
	Zhangping	堵堵, 堵好, 堵湊
	Chaozhou	堵堵, 堵好
	Shantou	湊巧, 恰巧, 堵堵, 啱
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	啱
	Jieyang	堵堵, 堵遇, 合合, 合昘, 合嘬, 啱, 啱啱
	Puning	合事, 合合, 合昘
	Haikou	啱, 啱啱
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	正好
Wu	Shanghai	剛, 齊巧, 正好, 正巧, 剛巧, 剛剛, 剛正好, 剛剛好, 正正好好, 貼正, 貼正好, 恰好, 貼准, 恰恰叫, 恰恰好, 眼眼叫, 眼眼調, 扣揢扣, 碰巧, 湊巧, 齊頭 dated, 齊頭好 dated
	Shanghai (Chuansha, Pudong)	剛, 剛剛
	Shanghai (Fengxian)	剛剛好
	Shanghai (Jinshan)	剛剛好, 正好子
	Shanghai (Qingpu)	剛剛好, 恰好
	Shanghai (Chongming)	正好, 剛, 剛剛
	Suzhou	剛巧, 剛正, 剛好, 齊巧, 齊頭, 眼眼調
	Wuxi	齊頭數, 齊巧
	Danyang	湊巧, 齊巧, 剛好, 正好, 齊巧好
	Hangzhou	剛巧, 正巧, 齊巧
	Ningbo	剛剛, 扣好, 扣扣, 候扣, 眼眼叫, 齊巧
	Wenzhou	恰兩恰兒, 恰恰兒, 扣扣, 扣門兒
	Jinhua	頂對, 正好, 正好兒, 剛好
Xiang	Changsha	剛合, 如勢, 獨如, 正好, 恰好
	Loudi	恰好, 正好
	Shuangfeng	正好

Japanese

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

Alternative spelling
端々

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕiba̠ɕi]

Noun

端(はし)端(ばし) • (hashibashi) 

1. every one