椿

椿

椿 U+693F, 椿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-693F ← 椾 [U+693E] CJK Unified Ideographs 楀 → [U+6940]

Translingual

Han character

椿 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木手大日 (DQKA), four-corner 4596₃, composition ⿰木春)

Derived characters

• 𢢫

References

• KangXi: page 538, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15090
• Dae Jaweon: page 925, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1242, character 8
• Unihan data for U+693F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		椿

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): chūn (chun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹
• Min Nan (POJ): thun / chhun

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chun
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun¹
    • Yale: chwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuen
    • Palladius: чунь (čunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰwən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceon¹
    • Yale: chēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰɵn⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thun
    • Tâi-lô: thun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: twn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰun³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhun
    • Tâi-lô: tshun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 椿
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʰuən²¹/ /t͡sʰuən²¹/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʰuən²⁴/
	Xi'an	/p͡fʰẽ²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fʰə̃n³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰyn⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰuən⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰuen⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʰun³¹/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂʰuən²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡sʰuəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡sʰuŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡sʰəŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡sʰən⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sʰz̩ʷen³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕʰoŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰyʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰyan¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰyn³³/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕʰyn³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰun⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/tʃʰun²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰøn⁵³/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰɐn⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰøn⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/tʰun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰuŋ³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈʰiuɪn/

Rime
Character	椿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰwin/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰun/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	椿
Reading #	1/1
No.	12566
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	椿
Old Chinese	/*tʰun/

Definitions

椿

1. Chinese toon (Toona sinensis), a type of tree that blooms white flowers in the summer and has edible leaves

   alt. forms: 杶, 櫄

2. tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
3. (figurative) father
4. of advanced age

Compounds

椿庭 椿萱 (chūnxuān) 椿象 (chūnxiàng) 臭椿 (chòuchūn) 角肩椿象

香椿 (xiāngchūn) 椿壽／椿寿 椿木營／椿木营 (Chūnmùyíng) 椿萱並茂／椿萱并茂

椿齡／椿龄 綠椿象／绿椿象 緣椿象／缘椿象 萱花椿樹／萱花椿树

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01757

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Japanese

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
椿
つばき Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

• 山茶, 海石榴

Kanji

椿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. Chinese mahogany (Toona sinesis)
2. unexpected
3. camellia

Readings

• Go-on: ちゅん (chun)^{←ちゆん (tyun, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅん (chun)^{←ちゆん (tyun, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ちん (chin)
• Kun: つばき (tsubaki, 椿)

Compounds

Compouds

• 椿事(ちんじ) (chinji)
• 椿寿(ちんじゅ) (chinju)
• 椿説(ちんせつ) (chinsetsu)
• 椿庭(ちんてい) (chintei)
• 椿堂(ちんどう) (chindō)
• 椿葉(ちんよう) (chin'yō)
• 椿嶺(ちんれい) (chinrei)
• 大椿(だいちん) (Daichin)
• 椿象(カメムシ) (kamemushi)
• 香(チャン)椿(チン) (chanchin)
• 菜椿象(ナガメ) (nagame)

Etymology

⟨tubaki₁⟩ → */tubakʲi/ → /t͡subaki/

From Old Japanese.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) つ​ばき [tsúꜜbàkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨᵝba̠kʲi]

Noun

椿(つばき) • (tsubaki) 

1. a camellia, especially the Japanese camellia, Camellia japonica
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 1, poem 73), text here

     吾妹(わぎも)子乎(こを)早(はや)見(み)濱風(はまかぜ)倭(やまと)有(なる)吾(＊)松(まつ)椿(つばき)不吹有(ふかざる)勿(な)勤(ゆめ) [Man'yōgana]

     我妹(わぎも)子(こ)を早(はや)見(み)浜風(はまかぜ)大和(やまと)なる我(あ)を松(まつ)椿(つばき)吹(ふ)かざるなゆめ [Modern spelling]

     wagimoko o hayami hamakaze Yamato naru a o matsu tsubaki fukazaru na yume

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   Synonym: 山茶 (sancha)

   Hyponyms: 藪椿 (yabu tsubaki), 雪椿 (yuki tsubaki)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 椿(つばき)油(あぶら) (tsubaki abura)
• 椿市(つばいち) (Tsubaichi)
• 椿(つばき)灰(ばい) (tsubaki-bai)
• 椿(つばき)姫(ひめ) (Tsubaki-hime)
• 椿(つばき)餅(もち) (tsubaki mochi), 椿(つばい)餅(もちい) (tsubai mochii)
• 椿(つばき)桃(もも) (tsubakimomo), 椿(つばい)桃(もも) (tsubaimomo)
• 落(お)ち椿(つばき) (ochitsubaki)
• 乙(オト)女(メ)椿(ツバキ) (otome tsubaki)
• 唐(から)椿(つばき) (kara-tsubaki)
• 寒(カン)椿(ツバキ) (kantsubaki)
• 玉(たま)椿(つばき) (tama tsubaki)
• 列列(つらつら)椿(つばき) (tsuratsura tsubaki)
• 唐(トウ)椿(ツバキ) (tō-tsubaki)
• 夏(ナツ)椿(ツバキ) (natsu tsubaki)
• 花(はな)椿(つばき) (hana tsubaki)
• 浜(はま)椿(つばき) (hama tsubaki)
• 姫(ひめ)椿(つばき) (hime-tsubaki)
• 冬(ふゆ)椿(つばき) (fuyu tsubaki)
• 藪(ヤブ)椿(ツバキ) (yabu tsubaki)
• 山(やま)椿(つばき) (yama tsubaki)
• 雪(ユキ)椿(ツバキ) (yuki tsubaki)
• 斎(ゆ)つ真(ま)椿(つばき) (yu tsu ma-tsubaki)

See also

• 山茶花(サザンカ) (sazanka)
• 茶(チャ) (cha), 茶(ちゃ)の木(き) (cha no ki)

Proper noun

椿(つばき) • (Tsubaki) 

1. a place name
2. a surname
3. a female given name

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

椿 • (chun) (hangeul 춘, revised chun, McCune–Reischauer ch'un, Yale chwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

椿: Hán Nôm readings: xoan, xuân, dăng

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