敦

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敦 U+6566, 敦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6566
← 敥
[U+6565] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 敧 →
[U+6567]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

敦 (radical 66, 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜木人大 (YDOK), four-corner 08440, composition ⿰享攵)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 473, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13276
  • Dae Jaweon: page 826, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1468, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6566

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 敦

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 敦
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
敦-bronze.svg 敦-seal.svg 敦-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (敦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
弴 *tjuː, *tuːn
敦 *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
錞 *duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
憝 *duːls
憞 *duːls
譈 *duːls
鐓 *duːls
鷻 *doːn
鶉 *doːn, *djun
惇 *tuːn, *tjun
墩 *tuːn
驐 *tuːn
燉 *tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
焞 *tʰuːn, *djun
啍 *tʰuːn, *duːn
暾 *tʰuːn
噋 *tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
諄 *tjun, *tjuns
埻 *tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
稕 *tjuns
醇 *djun
淳 *djun
犉 *njun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns): phonetic 𦎫 + semantic 攴 (“hand”)

Etymology 1[edit]

“thick; earnest; plentiful; large”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t/d)ow-n (“thick”).

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Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 敦
Reading # 2/4
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuən/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuon/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twən/
Li
Rong 		/tuən/
Wang
Li 		/tuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		doen1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敦 敦
Reading # 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dūn dūn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ twon › ‹ twon ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁur/ /*tˁur/
English solid, thick 敦煌 ~ 燉煌 Dūnhuáng

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 敦
Reading # 3/4
No. 2597
Phonetic
component 		敦
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		敦
Old
Chinese 		/*tuːn/

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. † angry
  2. to urge
  3. † to advise and encourage
  4. † diligent
  5. earnest; honest; generous
  6. † intimate
  7. † thick
  8. † plentiful; rich
  9. † large
  10. † to attach importance to; to esteem; to revere
  11. † to put something down with great force
  12. A river in Shanxi
  13. A surname​.

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Bronze dui vessel with inlaid geometric cloud pattern.JPG

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. ancient vessel used to hold grains

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 敦
Reading # 1/4
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都回切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuoi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twəj/
Li
Rong 		/tuᴀi/
Wang
Li 		/tuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		duī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		deoi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敦
Reading # 1/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		duī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ twoj ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁur/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)
English manage, direct

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 敦
Reading # 1/4
No. 2587
Phonetic
component 		敦
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		磓
Old
Chinese 		/*tuːl/

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. † to administer; to manage
  2. † solitary
  3. † to throw
  4. † to force upon

Etymology 4[edit]

See 團 (OC *doːn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 敦
Reading # 3/4
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 度官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duɑn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/duɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dwan/
Li
Rong 		/duɑn/
Wang
Li 		/duɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tyun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 敦
Reading # 2/4
No. 2594
Phonetic
component 		敦
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		團
Old
Chinese 		/*doːn/

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. † clustered
  2. † Alternative form of 團／团 (tuán, “round”).

Etymology 5[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 敦
Reading # 4/4
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都困切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuənH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuonH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twənH/
Li
Rong 		/tuənH/
Wang
Li 		/tuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dùn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		doen3

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. † to erect
  2. † Alternative form of 墩 (dūn, “mound”).

Etymology 6[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. Only used in 混敦 and 敦然.

Etymology 7[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

敦

  1. Only used in 敦恨.

Etymology 8[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 雕 (“to engrave; to inlay; to carve; carving; etc.”).
(This character, 敦, is a variant form of 雕.)

Etymology 9[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 燾 (“to illuminate everything; to cover; to envelope; etc.”).
(This character, 敦, is a variant form of 燾.)

Etymology 10[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 淳 (“thick; honest; etc.”).
(This character, 敦, is a variant form of 淳.)

Etymology 11[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 屯 (“village, hamlet; camp; etc.”).
(This character, 敦, is a variant form of 屯.)

Etymology 12[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 墩 (“mound; block of stone or wood; etc.”).
(This character, 敦, is the second-round simplified form of 墩.)
Notes:

Etymology 13[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 礅 (“large stone”).
(This character, 敦, is the second-round simplified form of 礅.)
Notes:

Etymology 14[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 蹾 (“to squat; to crouch”).
(This character, 敦, is the second-round simplified form of 蹾.)
Notes:

Etymology 15[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 敦 – see 撉 (“to hold tight; to seize; to jolt; to thump”).
(This character, 敦, is the second-round simplified form of 撉.)
Notes:

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

敦

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. kindness, affinity

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
敦
たい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 敦 (MC tuʌi, tuən, duɑn, tuənH).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

敦(たい) • (tai) 

  1. dui (vessel)

Proper noun[edit]

敦(あつし) or 敦(つとむ) • (Atsushi or Tsutomu) 

  1. A male given name

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

敦 • (don, toe) (hangeul 돈, 퇴, revised don, toe, McCune–Reischauer ton, t'oe, Yale ton, thoy)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

敦: Hán Việt readings: đôn (都(đô)昆(côn)切(thiết))[1][2][3][4], dun[4]
敦: Nôm readings: đon[1][2][3][5][6][7], run[1][2][3][4][6][7], xôn[2][5][4], xun[3][5][6], đôn[3][4][7], giun[4][6][7], dun[4][6][7], don[4][6][7], dồn[1][2], ton[3][5], rủn[3][6], gion[5][6], chon[1], trôn[1], đun[1], dôn[3], giôn[3], đùn[3], đũn[6], dún[7]

  1. Nôm form of run (“to tremble; to shiver”).

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Trần (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Bonet (1899).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Hồ (1976).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Génibrel (1898).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).
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