Chinese edit

east man; person; people
trad. (東人)
simp. (东人)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (38)
Final () (1) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter tuwng nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuŋ/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuŋ/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuŋ/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/təwŋ/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong
/tuŋ/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li
/tuŋ/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuŋ/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dōng rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dung1 jan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dōng rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ tuwng › ‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁoŋ/ (< *tˁoŋʔ ?) /*ni[ŋ]/
English east (other) person

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2435 10800
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*toːŋ/ /*njin/
Notes

Noun edit

東人

  1. (literary, literally) someone from the east; easterner
  2. (archaic) landlord; master; boss
  3. (archaic) host (person who receives or entertains other people as guests)
  4. (Korean Classical Chinese) Korean

Synonyms edit

  • (host):

Proper noun edit

東人

  1. (historical) a political faction in the Korean court which emerged in a dispute over the appropriate powers of royal in-laws in the 1570s, opposing the 西人 (xīrén, “Westerner”) faction; around 1589, they split into the 北人 (běirén, “Northerner”) and 南人 (nánrén, “Southerner”) factions