甸

甸	U+7538, 甸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7538

← 男
[U+7537]

CJK Unified Ideographs

甹 →
[U+7539]

Translingual

Han character

甸 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心田 (PW), four-corner 2762₀, composition ⿹勹田)

Derived characters

䡘

References

KangXi: page 759, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21732

Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2528, character 8

Unihan data for U+7538

Chinese

simp. and trad.		甸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甸
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'iːŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”).

Etymology

Exopassive of 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”), literally "what is being/has been cultivated" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien
Min Dong (BUC): diêng
Min Nan (POJ): tiān / tián
Wu (Wiktionary): di (T3)

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): /tjɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: din⁶
  - Yale: dihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: din⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
  - Hakka Romanization System: tien
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: diêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ²⁴²/
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: tián
  - Tâi-lô: tián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diern
  - IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn⁴¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: di (T3)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /d̥i²³/

Middle Chinese: /den^H/

Rime
Character	甸
Reading #	1/1
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	/den^H/
Pan Wuyun	/den^H/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛn^H/
Li Rong	/den^H/
Wang Li	/dien^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱien^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	din⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤiŋ-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ den^H ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁiŋ-s/
English	open space outside city
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	甸
Reading #	1/1
No.	12399
Phonetic component	田
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	電
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋs/

Definitions

甸

(literary) suburbs of the capital
(literary) field; open country; used in place names, chiefly in Yunnan and North-Eastern China
(obsolete) to govern
(obsolete) crops

Compounds

中甸 (Zhōngdiàn)
侯甸
坤甸 (Kūndiàn)
施甸 (Shīdiàn)
曹妃甸 (Cáofēidiàn)
沙甸 (Shādiàn)
甸匣
甸子 (diànzi)
甸甸

畿甸 (jīdiàn)
禹甸
芳甸
草甸子 (cǎodiànzi)
蔡甸 (Càidiàn)
近甸
邦甸
郊甸
下緬甸／下缅甸 (Xià Miǎndiàn)

寬甸／宽甸 (Kuāndiàn)
樺甸／桦甸 (Huàdiàn)
甸兒／甸儿
甸後／甸后
緬甸／缅甸 (Miǎndiàn)
緬甸聯邦／缅甸联邦
羅甸／罗甸 (Luódiàn)
華甸／华甸
蒲甸兒／蒲甸儿

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): din¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien

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): /tjɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: din¹
  - Yale: dīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: din¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: din¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
  - Hakka Romanization System: tien
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/

Definitions

甸

(chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription

Compounds

伊甸 (Yīdiàn)
布甸 (bùdiàn)
沙甸 (Shādiàn)

甲巴甸
芒果布甸 (mángguǒ bùdiàn)
伊甸園／伊甸园 (Yīdiànyuán)

沙甸魚／沙甸鱼
鴨巴甸／鸭巴甸 (Yābādiàn)

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): diàn, diān (dian⁴, dian¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ, ㄉㄧㄢ

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): /tjɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: diān
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dian
  - Wade–Giles: tien¹
  - Yale: dyān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
  - Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tjɛn⁵⁵/

Definitions

甸

Only used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn).

Pronunciation 4

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tián (tian²)
(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tián
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tián
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien²
  - Yale: tyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
  - Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin⁴
  - Yale: tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/

Definitions

甸

^† to hunt (wild animals)
alt. forms: 畋, 田

Japanese

Kanji

甸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: でん (den)

Kan-on: てん (ten)

Kun: かり (kari)

Korean

Hanja

甸 • (jeon, seung) (hangeul 전, 승)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甸: Hán Nôm readings: điện, điền

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