藤

See also: 籐

Translingual

Han character

藤 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 19 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 18 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿月火水 (TBFE), four-corner 4423₂, composition ⿱艹滕)

1. rattan, cane
2. wisteria (flora)
3. creeper plant

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1065, character 46
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32340
• Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3321, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85E4

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Chinese

trad.		藤/籐
simp.		藤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
黱	*l'ɯːs
朕	*l'ɯmʔ
鰧	*l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ
螣	*l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ
栚	*l'ɯmʔ
眹	*l'ɯnʔ
騰	*l'ɯːŋ
滕	*l'ɯːŋ
縢	*l'ɯːŋ
儯	*l'ɯːŋ
幐	*l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːŋs
藤	*l'ɯːŋ
謄	*l'ɯːŋ
膡	*l'ɯːŋ, *hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
籐	*l'ɯːŋ
勝	*hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs
蕂	*hljɯŋs
榺	*hljɯŋs
塍	*ɦljɯŋ
媵	*ljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
賸	*ɦljɯŋs, *lɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯːŋ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 滕 (OC *l'ɯːŋ) – a type of plant.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): téng (teng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tang⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tîn / têng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ding⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: téng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: téng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻêng²
    • Yale: téng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: terng
    • Palladius: тэн (tɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tang⁴
    • Yale: tàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: teng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tîn / têng
    • Tâi-lô: tîn / tîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diin, deeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tin¹³/, /tiɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tin²⁴/, /tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tin²³/, /tiɪŋ²³/

Note:

• tîn - vernacular;
• têng - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ding⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tîng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dong

Rime
Character	藤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒登切
Baxter	dong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/dəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/dəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəŋ/
Li Rong	/dəŋ/
Wang Li	/dəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	téng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tang4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藤
Reading #	1/1
No.	17121
Phonetic component	朕
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	騰
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藤

1. vine
2. cane; rattan
3. Teng

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Japanese

Wikispecies

Kanji

藤

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō)^{←どう (dou, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←とう (tou, historical)}
• Kun: ふじ (fuji, 藤, Jōyō)^{←ふぢ (fudi, 藤, historical)}
• Nanori: ぞう (zō); と (to); ふじゅ (fuju)

Compounds

• 葛藤(かっとう) (kattō): conflict
• 藤沢(ふじさわ) (Fujisawa)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
藤
ふじ Grade: S
kun’yomi

Noun

藤(ふじ) or 藤(フジ) • (fuji) ^{←ふぢ (fudi)?}

1. wisteria, especially Wisteria floribunda

Proper noun

藤(ふじ) • (Fuji) ^{←ふぢ (fudi)?}

1. a female given name

Derived terms

• 藤夫(ふじお) (Fujio): a male given name
• 藤色(ふじいろ) (fujiiro): violet, lilac, lavender
• 藤沢(ふじさわ) (Fujisawa): a surname
• 藤本(ふじもと) (Fujimoto): a surname
• 藤島(ふじしま) (Fujishima): a surname
• 藤井(ふじい) (Fujī): a surname
• 藤岡(ふじおか) (Fujioka): a surname
• 藤瀬(ふじせ) (Fujise): a surname
• 藤栄(とうえい) (Tōei): a surname
• 藤城(ふじしろ) (Fujishiro): a surname

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Korean

Hanja

藤 • (deung) (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune–Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 藤 (đằng)

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