殿

See also: 宸

殿 U+6BBF, 殿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BBF ← 殾 [U+6BBE] CJK Unified Ideographs 毀 → [U+6BC0]

Contents

Translingual

Han character

殿 (radical 79, 殳+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸金竹弓水 (SCHNE), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿰𡱒殳)

Derived characters

• 澱

References

• KangXi: page 586, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16651
• Dae Jaweon: page 978, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2162, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6BBF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		殿
variant forms		𡱒 second round simplified

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (殿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
殿	*tɯːns, *dɯːns
澱	*dɯːns
壂	*dɯːns
臀	*duːn

From hand 殳 and a person squatting 尸 and remnant 共 (a man sitting his butt in on a stool) (now 臀). Original meaning “buttocks”. Later meaning “a hall”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): doin⁷ / diang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: din⁶
    • Yale: dihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: din⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tiːn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
    • Hakka Romanization System: tien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian⁴
    • IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
    • Tâi-lô: tiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: doin⁷ / diang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tōiⁿ / tiăng
    • IPA ^(key): /tõĩ¹¹/, /tiaŋ³⁵/

Note: diang6 - “to bring up the rear”.

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• Middle Chinese: /den^H/, /ten^H/▼

Rime
Character	殿	殿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	堂練切	都甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/denH/	/tenH/
Pan Wuyun	/denH/	/tenH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛnH/	/tɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛnH/	/tɛnH/
Li Rong	/denH/	/tenH/
Wang Li	/dienH/	/tienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱienH/	/tienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn	diàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-t]ˤə[n]-s/, /*tˤə[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tɯːns/, /*dɯːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殿	殿	殿
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	diàn	diàn	diàn
Middle Chinese	‹ denH ›	‹ tenH ›	‹ tenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-t]ˁə[n]-s/	/*tˁə[n]-s/	/*tˁə[n]-s/
English	palace	rear (building, army unit)	palace, hall
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	殿	殿
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2355	2356
Phonetic component	殿	殿
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	殿	電
Old Chinese	/*tɯːns/	/*dɯːns/

Definitions

殿

1. hall; palace; temple
2. ^† Alternative form of 臀 (tún, “buttocks”).
3. to bring up the rear

Synonyms

• 宮／宫 (gōng)
• 闕／阙 (què)

Compounds

• 中和殿
• 享殿
• 便殿
• 保和殿
• 偏殿
• 凌波殿
• 凌霄殿
• 別殿／别殿
• 十殿閻王／十殿阎王
• 坐殿
• 大成殿
• 大殿 (dàdiàn)
• 大殿選／大殿选
• 大登殿
• 大雄寶殿／大雄宝殿 (dàxióng bǎo diàn)
• 天王殿
• 太和殿 (Tàihédiàn)
• 宮殿／宫殿 (gōngdiàn)
• 寢殿／寝殿
• 寶殿／宝殿 (bǎodiàn)
• 廡殿／庑殿

• 懋勤殿
• 昭陽殿／昭阳殿 (Zhāoyáng Diàn)
• 朵殿
• 森羅殿／森罗殿
• 正殿 (zhèngdiàn)
• 武英殿
• 殿上虎
• 殿下 (diànxià)
• 殿元
• 殿堂 (diàntáng)
• 殿宇 (diànyǔ)
• 殿屎
• 殿後／殿后
• 殿本
• 殿版
• 殿試／殿试 (diànshì)
• 殿軍／殿军 (diànjūn)
• 殿鐘自鳴／殿钟自鸣
• 殿閣／殿阁
• 殿頭官／殿头官

• 玉樓金殿／玉楼金殿
• 登殿 (dēngdiàn)
• 祈年殿
• 神殿 (shéndiàn)
• 紺殿／绀殿
• 罵殿／骂殿
• 設朝升殿／设朝升殿
• 講殿／讲殿
• 賀后罵殿／贺后骂殿
• 配殿
• 金殿
• 金華殿語／金华殿语
• 金鑾殿／金銮殿
• 銀安殿／银安殿
• 長生殿／长生殿 (Chángshēng Diàn)
• 閻王殿／阎王殿
• 集賢殿／集贤殿
• 靈霄寶殿／灵霄宝殿
• 養心殿／养心殿
• 魯殿靈光／鲁殿灵光

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Japanese

Kanji

殿

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: でん (den, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: てん (ten, Jōyō)
• Kun: との (tono, 殿, Jōyō); どの (dono, 殿); しんがり (shingari, 殿)
• Nanori: あと (ato); すえ (sue); との (tono)

Compounds

• 沈 (ちん)殿 (でん) (chinden)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
殿
どの Grade: S
kun’yomi

Suffix

殿 (hiragana どの, rōmaji -dono)

1. Mr., Ms., a more formal title than さん (-san) but not so respectful as 様 (さま) (-sama)

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Korean

Hanja

殿 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

殿 (điện, đền, điếng)

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