展

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – laying out goods for sale. The top 尸 is the roof, the middle is derived from four 工 shapes in a square (goods for sale), while the bottom is cognate to 衣 (“cloth”) – an unfurled cloth, with goods on top (or the cloth itself for sale).

Han character

展 (radical 44 尸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸廿女 (STV), four-corner 7723₂)

1. open, unfold
2. stretch, extend

Related characters

• 衣

See also

• 孃 (graphically similar lower right component)

References

• KangXi: page 302, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7715
• Dae Jaweon: page 599, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 974, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5C55

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Cantonese

Hanzi

展 (Yale jin2)

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Japanese

Kanji

展 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: つらねる (tsuraneru), のべる (noberu), のびる (nobiru)

Compounds

• 展覧会 (てんらんかい, tenrankai, “exhibition”)

Proper noun

展 (hiragana まこと, romaji Makoto)

1. A male given name

Suffix

展 (hiragana てん, romaji -ten)

1. exhibition

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Korean

Hanja

展 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

展 (pinyin zhǎn (zhan3), Wade-Giles chan³)

Compounds

• 展開

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Vietnamese

Han character

展 (triển, chẽn)