佃

佃

佃 U+4F43, 佃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F43 ← 佂 [U+4F42] CJK Unified Ideographs 佄 → [U+4F44]

Translingual

Han character

佃 (radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人田 (OW), four-corner 2620₀, composition ⿰亻田)

1. tenant farmer
2. be a tenant farmer

References

• KangXi: page 97, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 492
• Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 133, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4F43

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		佃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佃
Bronze inscriptions b12375 b12376 b12377 b12378 b12379 b12380 b12381 Small seal script s05838
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (田) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
田	*l'iːŋ
佃	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畋	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
鈿	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
沺	*l'iːŋ
甸	*l'iːŋs

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tián (tian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade–Giles: t'ien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /den/▼

Rime
Character	佃
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒年切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/den/
Pan Wuyun	/den/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛn/
Li Rong	/den/
Wang Li	/dien/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tián

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佃
Reading #	1/2
No.	12393
Phonetic component	田
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	田
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋ/

Definitions

佃

1. (literary) to till; to cultivate
2. (literary) Alternative form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt”).

Compounds

佃作 佃具

佃器 佃漁／佃渔 (tiányú)

佃獵／佃猎

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tiān / tān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: din⁶
    • Yale: dihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
    • Tâi-lô: tiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dien
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tān
    • Tâi-lô: tān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dan
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tan³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /den^H/▼

Rime
Character	佃
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	堂練切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/denH/
Pan Wuyun	/denH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛnH/
Li Rong	/denH/
Wang Li	/dienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤiŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	佃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ denH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁiŋ-s/
English	hunt
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	佃
Reading #	2/2
No.	12400
Phonetic component	田
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	電
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋs/

Definitions

佃

1. to rent and till land from a landlord
2. land rent
3. (dialectal) to rent
4. A surname​.

Compounds

佃人 佃契 佃客 佃戶／佃户 (diànhù) 佃權／佃权

佃科 佃租 佃租制度 佃農／佃农 (diànnóng) 撤佃

永佃權／永佃权 租佃 請佃／请佃 退佃 (tuìdiàn)

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Japanese

Kanji

佃

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: つくだ (tsukuda, 佃)

Kanji in this term
佃
つくだ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

佃 (hiragana つくだ, rōmaji tsukuda)

1. cultivated rice field

Derived terms

• 佃煮

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Korean

Hanja

佃 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

佃 (điền)

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