椴

椴 U+6934, 椴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6934 ← 椳 [U+6933] CJK Unified Ideographs 椵 → [U+6935]

Translingual

Han character

椴 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木竹十水 (DHJE), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿰木段)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 537, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15075
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1251, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6934

Chinese

simp. and trad.		椴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鍛	*toːns
腶	*toːns
碫	*toːns
瑖	*toːns
緞	*doːnʔ, *doːns
段	*doːns
椴	*doːns
毈	*doːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duàn (duan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duàn
    • Wade–Giles: tuan⁴
    • Yale: dwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duann
    • Palladius: дуань (duanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dyun⁶
    • Yale: dyuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dwanH

Rime
Character	椴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒玩切
Baxter	dwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/dʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/duɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwanH/
Li Rong	/duɑnH/
Wang Li	/duɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	椴
Reading #	1/1
No.	2535
Phonetic component	段
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	段
Old Chinese	/*doːns/

Definitions

椴

1. linden, lime tree

Japanese

Kanji

椴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. linden, lime tree

Readings

• Go-on: だん (dan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: むくげ (mukuge, 椴); くい (kui); とどまつ (todomatsu)

Korean

Hanja

椴 (eum 단 (dan))

1. linden, lime tree

Vietnamese

Han character

椴: Hán Nôm readings: đoạn

1. linden, lime tree

References

• Nom Foundation