芚

芚 U+829A, 芚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-829A ← 芙 [U+8299] CJK Unified Ideographs 芛 → [U+829B]

Translingual

Han character

芚 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿心山 (TPU), four-corner 4471₄, composition ⿱艹屯)

1. green sprout
2. foolish

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1019, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30695
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3179, character 15
• Unihan data for U+829A

Chinese

trad.		芚
simp. #		芚

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tún (tun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹, tyun⁴, teon¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thun / tûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tún
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tún
    • Wade–Giles: tʻun²
    • Yale: twún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: twen
    • Palladius: тунь (tunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceon¹, tyun⁴, teon¹
    • Yale: chēun, tyùhn, tēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹, tyn⁴, toen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên¹, tün⁴, tên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵/, /tʰyːn²¹/, /tʰɵn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thun / tûn
    • Tâi-lô: thun / tûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: twn, duun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰun⁴⁴/, /tun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰun³³/, /tun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰun⁴⁴/, /tun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰun⁴⁴/, /tun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰun⁴⁴/, /tun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dwon

Rime
Character	芚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒渾切
Baxter	dwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duən/
Pan Wuyun	/duon/
Shao Rongfen	/duən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwən/
Li Rong	/duən/
Wang Li	/duən/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	teon4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芚
Reading #	1/1
No.	12555
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	屯
Old Chinese	/*duːn/
Notes	見法言

Definitions

芚

1. the appearance of a sprouting plant
2. name of an edible vegetable similar to amaranth

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03795
• “芚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

芚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とん (ton); どん (don); ちゅん (chun)

Korean

Hanja

芚 • (dun) (hangeul 둔, revised dun, McCune–Reischauer tun, Yale twun)

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