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

• 𭎧, 𣵦, 㭵, 𮴝, 𬗚, 蜔, 䡘(𬨉), 𰼲, 𱋽, 𠡪, 𰻫, 𢑜, 䓒, 𱋼

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

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

  (Hailu, HRS): tien^˖

• Eastern Min (BUC): diêng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deng⁵ / dieng⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiān / tián
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶di

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• 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): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: din⁶
    • Yale: dihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰien³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: deng⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: deng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛŋ²¹/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: diāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (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
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶di
    • MiniDict: di^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³di
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²³/

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• Middle Chinese: denH

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
Baxter	denH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/denH/
Pan Wuyun	/denH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛnH/
Li Rong	/denH/
Wang Li	/dienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱienH/
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	‹ denH ›
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

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

   • 乃命爾先祖成湯革夏，俊民甸四方。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     乃命尔先祖成汤革夏，俊民甸四方。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

     Nǎi mìng ěr xiānzǔ chéng Tāng gé Xià, jùn mín diàn sìfāng. [Pinyin]

     [Heaven] then directed your first ancestor, Tang the Accomplished, to overturn Xia, [Tang then employed] outstanding men to govern the four quarters of the empire.

4. (obsolete) crops

Compounds

• 下緬甸 / 下缅甸 (Xià Miǎndiàn)
• 中甸 (Zhōngdiàn)
• 侯甸
• 坤甸 (Kūndiàn)
• 寬甸 / 宽甸 (Kuāndiàn)
• 施甸 (Shīdiàn)
• 曹妃甸 (Cáofēidiàn)
• 樺甸 / 桦甸 (Huàdiàn)
• 沙甸 (Shādiàn)
• 甸兒 / 甸儿
• 甸匣
• 甸子 (diànzi)
• 甸後 / 甸后
• 甸甸
• 畿甸 (jīdiàn)
• 禹甸
• 緬甸 / 缅甸 (Miǎndiàn)
• 緬甸聯邦 / 缅甸联邦
• 羅甸 / 罗甸 (Luódiàn)
• 芳甸
• 草甸子 (cǎodiànzi)
• 華甸 / 华甸
• 蒲甸兒 / 蒲甸儿
• 蔡甸 (Càidiàn)
• 近甸
• 邦甸
• 郊甸

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien

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• 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): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: din¹
    • Yale: dīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: din¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/

Definitions

甸

1. (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

Compounds

• 伊甸 (Yīdiàn)
• 伊甸園 / 伊甸园 (Yīdiànyuán)
• 布甸 (bùdiàn)
• (Cantonese) 沙甸 (saa¹ din¹)
• 沙甸魚 / 沙甸鱼
• 甲巴甸
• 芒果布甸 (mángguǒ bùdiàn)
• 鴨巴甸 / 鸭巴甸 (Yābādiàn)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn, diān (dian⁴, dian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ, ㄉㄧㄢ

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• 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): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diān
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dian
    • Wade–Giles: tien¹
    • Yale: dyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/

Definitions

甸

1. used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn)

Pronunciation 4

• 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–Macau)
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/

Definitions

甸

1. ancient form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt (wild animals)”)

References

• “Query for 甸”, in 臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “甸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “甸”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 51.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 甸

甸

(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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