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 Dictionary: 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

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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, 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): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ceon¹
    • Yale: chēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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 (Hokkien)	/tʰun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡sʰuŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: trhwin

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
Baxter	trhwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰwin/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭuĕn/
Bernhard 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 (chūn), 櫄 (chūn)

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

Compounds

• 椿壽 / 椿寿
• 椿庭
• 椿木營 / 椿木营 (Chūnmùyíng)
• 椿萱 (chūnxuān)
• 椿萱並茂 / 椿萱并茂
• 椿象 (chūnxiàng)
• 椿齡 / 椿龄
• 綠椿象 / 绿椿象
• 緣椿象 / 缘椿象
• 臭椿 (chòuchūn)
• 萱花椿樹 / 萱花椿树
• 角肩椿象
• 香椿 (xiāngchūn)

References

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