𠕇

See also: 冇 and 有

Translingual

Han character

𠕇 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大月戈 (KBI), composition ⿵冇丶)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 129, character 5
• Unihan data for U+20547

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 冇 + 丶. In Min Nan, 冇, which is 有 (“to have”) without the two inner strokes, is used to mean "empty, hollow", originally when describing grain kernels. Adding 丶 inside 冇 shows a full kernel in the hollow husk, therefore meaning "hard, solid".

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		𠕇
alternative forms		橂 𠕆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tēng / tūiⁿ / tān / těng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): doin⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēng
    • Tâi-lô: tīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan): /tiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kinmen): /tiɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tūiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tuīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvui
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tuĩ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tān
    • Tâi-lô: tān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan²²/
  • (Hokkien: Lukang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: těng
    • Tâi-lô: tǐng
    • IPA (Lukang): /tiɪŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: doin⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tōiⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tõĩ¹¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 𠕇 (Southern Min)

1. hard, solid

Antonyms

• 軟／软 (ruǎn)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 𠕇 – see 冇 (“to not have; to not exist; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 冇).

References

• “Entry #13603”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎^[1], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.
• Teochew Pronunciation Dictionary (潮州音字典)
• Cantonese Pronunciation List of the Characters for Computers (U+E000)