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)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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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”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甸

1. suburbs of the capital
2. to govern
3. crops

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tián (tian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴

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• 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): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甸

1. ^† to hunt (wild animals)

   alt. forms: 畋 (tián), 田 (tián)

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Japanese

Kanji

甸

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: でん (den)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: かり (kari)

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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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