遁

遁 U+9041, 遁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9041 ← 遀 [U+9040] CJK Unified Ideographs 遂 → [U+9042]

Translingual

Han character

遁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹十山 (YHJU), four-corner 3230₆, composition ⿺辶盾)

Derived characters

• 𠎻, 𡀷, 𱘇, 𢶿, 𣜲, 𡮽, 𨆛, 𨮐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1260, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38982
• Dae Jaweon: page 1750, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3859, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9041

Chinese

trad.		遁
simp. #		遁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
盾	*l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ
遁	*l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns
循	*ljun
揗	*ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns
楯	*ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ
輴	*l̥ʰun
腯	*l'uːd
鍎	*l'uːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns): semantic 辶 + phonetic 盾 (OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùn (dun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deon⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dong⁵ / duong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
    • Wade–Giles: tun⁴
    • Yale: dwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
    • Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: deon⁶
    • Yale: deuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dong⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: deōng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: duong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tuoŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dwonX, dwonH

Rime
Character	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒損切	徒困切
Baxter	dwonX	dwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duənX/	/duənH/
Pan Wuyun	/duonX/	/duonH/
Shao Rongfen	/duənX/	/duənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwənX/	/dwənH/
Li Rong	/duənX/	/duənH/
Wang Li	/duənX/	/duənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuənX/	/dʱuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dùn	dùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	deon6	deon6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤu[n]ʔ/, /*lˤu[n]ʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'uːnʔ/, /*l'uːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dùn	dùn
Middle Chinese	‹ dwonX ›	‹ dwonH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁu[n]ʔ/	/*lˁu[n]ʔ-s/
English	withdraw	withdraw
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	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2624	2625
Phonetic component	盾	盾
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	囤	鈍
Old Chinese	/*l'uːnʔ/	/*l'uːns/

Definitions

遁

1. to escape; to flee; to evade
2. to hide away; to conceal oneself

Compounds

• 土遁
• 奇門遁甲 / 奇门遁甲 (qíméndùnjiǎ)
• 支遁
• 支遁買山 / 支遁买山
• 望風而遁 / 望风而遁
• 棲遁 / 栖遁
• 水遁
• 深藏遠遁 / 深藏远遁
• 潛身遠遁 / 潜身远遁
• 無所遁形 / 无所遁形 (wúsuǒdùnxíng)
• 禽奔獸遁 / 禽奔兽遁
• 肥遁
• 逃遁 (táodùn)
• 遁世 (dùnshì)
• 遁世逃名
• 違世遁俗 / 违世遁俗
• 遁世離群 / 遁世离群
• 遁佚
• 遁入空門 / 遁入空门 (dùnrùkōngmén)
• 遁化
• 遁北
• 遁名匿跡 / 遁名匿迹
• 遁形 (dùnxíng)
• 遁甲 (dùnjiǎ)
• 遁藏
• 遁走 (dùnzǒu)
• 遁跡 / 遁迹 (dùnjì)
• 遁跡潛形 / 遁迹潜形
• 遁跡銷聲 / 遁迹销声
• 遁身
• 遁辭 / 遁辞
• 遁逃 (dùntáo)
• 遜遁 / 逊遁
• 遠遁 / 远遁 (yuǎndùn)
• 遠遁山林 / 远遁山林
• 隱遁 / 隐遁 (yǐndùn)
• 高飛遠遁 / 高飞远遁

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “遁”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 57.