鈍

See also: 钝

Translingual

Han character

鈍 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金心山 (CPU), four-corner 8511₇, composition ⿰金屯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1298, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40219
• Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4175, character 3
• Unihan data for U+920D

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Chinese

trad.		鈍
simp.		钝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鈍
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *duːns) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-t(u/i)l (“dull; blunt”). Compare Tibetan རྟུལ (rtul, “dull; blunt”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùn (dun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deon⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thun
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tūn / tǔn / tun / tùn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
    • Wade–Giles: tun⁴
    • Yale: dwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
    • Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: deon⁶
    • Yale: deuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thun
    • Hakka Romanization System: tun
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰun⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tūn
    • Tâi-lô: tūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dun
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tun³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tun²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǔn
    • Tâi-lô: tǔn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tun²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tun
    • Tâi-lô: tun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dwn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tun⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùn
    • Tâi-lô: tùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duxn
    • IPA (Taipei): /tun¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tun²¹/

Note:

• Xiamen, Zhangzhou:
  • tun/tūn - “not sharp”;
  • tūn - “stupid”.
• Quanzhou:
  • tūn - literary;
  • tǔn - vernacular.
• Taiwan:
  • tun/tūn - “not sharp”;
  • tùn/tūn - “stupid”.

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• Middle Chinese: dwonH

Rime
Character	鈍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒困切
Baxter	dwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duənH/
Pan Wuyun	/duonH/
Shao Rongfen	/duənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwənH/
Li Rong	/duənH/
Wang Li	/duənH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	deon6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*duːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鈍
Reading #	1/1
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鈍
Old Chinese	/*duːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鈍

1. dull; blunt; not sharp
2. dull-witted; dim-witted; slow-witted; stupid
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

鈍

(Jōyō kanji)

1. someting blunt, blunt sword
2. "good-for-nothing", incompetent person, coward
3. (vulgar) sleepyhead, slowpoke, dawdler, loafer

Readings

• On (unclassified): どん (don, Jōyō); とん (ton)
• Kun: にぶい (nibui, 鈍い, Jōyō); にぶる (niburu, 鈍る, Jōyō); のろい (noroi, 鈍い)

Noun

鈍(にび) • (nibi) 

1. Short for 鈍色.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鈍 (độn)

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