Wiktionary

燈

See also: 灯
燈 U+71C8, 燈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71C8
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[U+71C7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 燉 →
[U+71C9]

TranslingualEdit

Japanese 灯
Simplified 灯
Traditional 燈

Han characterEdit

燈 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火弓人廿 (FNOT), four-corner 92818, composition ⿰火登)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 682, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19402
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2238, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+71C8

ChineseEdit

trad. 燈
simp. 灯

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (登) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
登 *tɯːŋ
璒 *tɯːŋ
燈 *tɯːŋ
簦 *tɯːŋ
蹬 *tɯːŋ, *dɯːŋs
磴 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs, *tʰɯːŋ
鐙 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs
嶝 *tɯːŋs
隥 *tɯːŋs
橙 *tɯːŋs, *rdɯːŋ
凳 *tɯːŋs
墱 *tɯːŋs
鼟 *tʰɯːŋ
膯 *tʰɯːŋ
澄 *dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ
鄧 *dɯːŋs
僜 *dɯːŋs, *tʰɯŋ
覴 *tʰɯŋs
瞪 *dɯŋ, *dɯŋs, *rdɯːŋ
憕 *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ, *rdɯːŋ
撜 *tjɯŋʔ
證 *tjɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tɯːŋ): semantic 火 (“candlelight”) + phonetic 登 (OC *tɯːŋ).

EtymologyEdit

to jinx
From 燈神／灯神. See there for more.

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • dĭng - colloquial;
  • dĕng - literary.
  • Min Nan
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Rime
    Character 燈
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 端 (5)
    Final (韻) 登 (129)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 都滕切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/təŋ/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/təŋ/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/təŋ/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/təŋ/
    Li
    Rong         		/təŋ/
    Wang
    Li         		/təŋ/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/təŋ/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		dēng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		dang1
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 燈
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		dēng
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ tong ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*k-tˁəŋ/
    English lamp

    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 燈
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 2171
    Phonetic
    component         		登
    Rime
    group         		蒸
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese         		/*tɯːŋ/
    Notes 鐙後起分化字

    DefinitionsEdit

    燈

    1. lamp; light; lantern (for illumination) (Classifier: 盞／盏 m c h; 眼 c; 支 mn)
      電燈／电灯  ―  diàndēng  ―  electric light
      熄燈／熄灯  ―  xīdēng  ―  to turn off a light
    2. lamp (for heating)
      酒精燈／酒精灯  ―  jiǔjīngdēng  ―  alcohol burner
    3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) to jinx; to often make incorrect predictions

    SynonymsEdit

    Dialectal synonyms of 燈 (“lamp; light”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 燈
    Mandarin Taiwan 燈
    Xi'an 燈
    Chengdu 亮
    Guilin 燈
    Malaysia 火, 燈
    Singapore 燈
    Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 燈
    Cantonese Guangzhou 燈
    Hong Kong 燈
    Taishan 燈, 火
    Singapore (Guangfu) 燈, 火
    Gan Nanchang 燈
    Hakka Meixian 燈
    Miaoli (N. Sixian) 燈, 火
    Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 燈, 火
    Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 燈, 火
    Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 燈, 火
    Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 燈, 火
    Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 燈, 火
    Jin Taiyuan 燈
    Min Dong Fuzhou 燈
    Min Nan Xiamen 燈
    Penang (Hokkien) 燈, 火
    Singapore (Hokkien) 火
    Manila (Hokkien) 火, 燈
    Singapore (Teochew) 火, 燈
    Waxiang Guzhang (Gaofeng) 燈
    Wu Suzhou 燈
    Ningbo 燈, 亮 dated
    Wenzhou 燈
    Xiang Changsha 燈, 亮
    Xiangxiang 燈

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 燈

    JapaneseEdit

    KanjiEdit

    燈

    (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 灯)

    ReadingsEdit

    KoreanEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Middle Chinese 燈 (MC təŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 드ᇰ (tung) (Yale: tung) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

    HanjaEdit

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    燈 (eumhun 등 등 (deung deung))

    1. Hanja form? of 등 (“lamp, lantern, light”).

    CompoundsEdit

    Compounds

    ReferencesEdit

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

    燈: Hán Nôm readings: đăng

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