# 遁

| 遁 | U+9041, &#36929; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9041 |
| ← 遀 [U+9040] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 遂 → [U+9042] |

## Translingual
### Han character

遁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹十山 (YHJU), four-corner 3230$_6$, composition ⿺辶盾)

#### Derived characters

* 𠎻, 𡀷, 𱘇, 𢶿, 𣜲, 𡮽, 𨆛, 𨮐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1260, character 26
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38982
* Dae Jaweon: page 1750, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3859, character 12
* Unihan data for U+9041

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 盾 | *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ |
| 遁 | *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns |
| 循 | *ljun |
| 揗 | *ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns |
| 楯 | *ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ |
| 輴 | *l̥ʰun |
| 腯 | *l'uːd |
| 鍎 | *l'uːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns): semantic 辶 + phonetic 盾 (OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dùn (dun$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): deon$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dong$^5$ / duong$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
*** Wade–Giles: tun$^4$
*** Yale: dwùn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
*** Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tu̯ən⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: deon$^6$
*** Yale: deuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: doen$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dên$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɵn²²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dong$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɔŋ²¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: duong$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /tuoŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: dwonX, dwonH
Rime :
| Character | 遁 | 遁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 魂 (55) | 魂 (55) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 徒損切 | 徒困切 |
| Baxter | dwonX | dwonH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /duən$^X$/ | /duən$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /duon$^X$/ | /duon$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /duən$^X$/ | /duən$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dwən$^X$/ | /dwən$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /duən$^X$/ | /duən$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /duən$^X$/ | /duən$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /dʱuən$^X$/ | /dʱuən$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | dùn | dùn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | deon$^6$ | deon$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤu[n]ʔ/, /*lˤu[n]ʔ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'uːnʔ/, /*l'uːns/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 遁 | 遁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | dùn | dùn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dwon$^X$ › | ‹ dwon$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*lˁu[n]ʔ/ | /*lˁu[n]ʔ-s/ |
| English | withdraw | withdraw |
| 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 | 遁 | 遁 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 2624 | 2625 |
| Phonetic component | 盾 | 盾 |
| Rime group | 文 | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 囤 | 鈍 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'uːnʔ/ | /*l'uːns/ |

### Definitions

遁
* to escape; to flee; to evade
* to hide away; to conceal oneself

#### Compounds

* 土遁
* 奇門遁甲 / 奇门遁甲 (qíméndùnjiǎ)
* 支遁
* 支遁買山 / 支遁买山
* 望風而遁 / 望风而遁
* 棲遁 / 栖遁
* 水遁
* 深藏遠遁 / 深藏远遁
* 潛身遠遁 / 潜身远遁
* 無所遁形 / 无所遁形 (wúsuǒdùnxíng)
* 禽奔獸遁 / 禽奔兽遁
* 肥遁
* 逃遁 (táodùn)
* 遁世 (dùnshì)
* 遁世逃名
* 違世遁俗 / 违世遁俗
* 遁世離群 / 遁世离群
* 遁佚
* 遁入空門 / 遁入空门 (dùnrùkōngmén)
* 遁化
* 遁北
* 遁名匿跡 / 遁名匿迹
* 遁形
* 遁甲 (dùnjiǎ)
* 遁藏
* 遁走 (dùnzǒu)
* 遁跡 / 遁迹 (dùnjì)
* 遁跡潛形 / 遁迹潜形
* 遁跡銷聲 / 遁迹销声
* 遁身
* 遁辭 / 遁辞
* 遁逃 (dùntáo)
* 遜遁 / 逊遁
* 遠遁 / 远遁 (yuǎndùn)
* 遠遁山林 / 远遁山林
* 隱遁 / 隐遁
* 高飛遠遁 / 高飞远遁

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “遁”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 57.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* to escape, to run away

#### Readings

* Go-on: しゅん (shun)、どん (don)
* Kan-on: しゅん (shun)、とん (ton)
* Kun: にげる (nigeru, 遁げる)、のがれる (nogareru, 遁れる)

### Compounds

* 遁(とん)辞(じ) (tonji)
* 遁走(とんそう) (tonsō)
* 水遁(すいとん) (suiton)
* 逃(ちょう)遁(とん) (chōton)
* 土(ど)遁(とん) (doton)

### Definitions

* Kanji in this term
* 遁
* のがれ Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 遁 – see the following entry. :
| 【逃のがれ】 | [noun] an escape, a dodge, avoidance, evasion Alternative spellings 遁れ, 逃 |
(This term, 遁, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

#### Usage notes

The 逃れ spelling is more common.

### References
## Korean
### Hanja

遁 • (dun, don) (hangeul 둔, 돈, revised dun, don, McCune–Reischauer tun, ton, Yale twun, ton)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

遁: Hán Nôm readings: độn, rộn, trốn, dọn, nhộn, trộn, tuần
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