霆

霆 U+9706, 霆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9706 ← 霅 [U+9705] CJK Unified Ideographs 震 → [U+9707]

Translingual

Han character

霆 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月弓大土 (MBNKG), four-corner 1040₁, composition ⿱雨廷)

Derived characters

• 𨽕, 𧓴, 𨯊

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1374, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42299
• Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4062, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9706

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 霆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
蜓	*l'eːnʔ, *l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
涏	*l'eːns, *l'eːŋʔ
綎	*l̥ʰeːŋ, *l'eːŋ
珽	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ
脡	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ
侹	*l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *l̥ʰeːŋs
頲	*l'eːŋʔ
廷	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
庭	*l'eːŋ
鼮	*l'eːŋ
莛	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
筳	*l'eːŋ
霆	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
娗	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
挺	*l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ
艇	*l'eːŋʔ
鋌	*l'eːŋʔ
梃	*l'eːŋʔ
誔	*l'eːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 廷 (OC *l'eːŋ, *l'eːŋʔ).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		霆
simp. #		霆

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tíng (ting²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ting⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): dìng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): têng / thêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): têng⁵

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶din / ²din

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tíng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻing²
    • Yale: tíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyng
    • Palladius: тин (tin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ting⁴
    • Yale: tìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ting⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ting⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɪŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: têng
    • Tâi-lô: tîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deeng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thêng
    • Tâi-lô: thîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: teeng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪŋ¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: têng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰeŋ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶din
    • MiniDict: din^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³din
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /din²³/
  • (Northern: Suzhou, Ningbo)
    • Wugniu: ²din
    • MiniDict: din^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /din²²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /diŋ³¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: deng, dengX

Rime
Character	霆	霆
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	青 (125)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	特丁切	徒鼎切
Baxter	deng	dengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/deŋ/	/deŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/deŋ/	/deŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛŋ/	/dɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛjŋ/	/dɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/deŋ/	/deŋX/
Wang Li	/dieŋ/	/dieŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱieŋ/	/dʱieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tíng	dìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ting4	ding6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'eːŋ/, /*l'eːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霆	霆
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12425	12435
Phonetic component	廷	廷
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	庭	挺
Old Chinese	/*l'eːŋ/	/*l'eːŋʔ/

Definitions

霆

1. thunderclap; thunder
2. lightning

Compounds

• 大發雷霆 / 大发雷霆 (dàfāléitíng)
• 雷霆 (léitíng)
• 雷霆之怒
• 雷霆萬鈞 / 雷霆万钧 (léitíngwànjūn)
• 雷霆電雹 / 雷霆电雹
• 霆擊 / 霆击
• 震霆
• 風霆 / 风霆

Pronunciation 2

trad.		霆
simp. #		霆
alternative forms		𦗀 陳／陈

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁵

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tân
    • Tâi-lô: tân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

霆

1. (Southern Min) to make a sound; to ring

Compounds

• 霆水螺 (tân-chúi-lê) (Min Nan)
• 霆雷
• 霆雷公

References

• “霆”, 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–
• “霆”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 霆

霆

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←ぢやう (dyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: いかずち (ikazuchi, 霆)^{←いかづち (ikaduti, 霆, historical)}

Etymology

Kanji in this term
霆
いかずち Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 霆 – see the following entry.

【雷いかずち】S [noun] (archaic) thunder [noun] (obsolete) something ferocious and imposing, a demon or devil [proper noun] a surname

(This term, 霆, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

霆 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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