# 淀

| 淀 | U+6DC0, &#28096; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DC0 |
| ← 涿 [U+6DBF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 淁 → [U+6DC1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

淀 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水十一人 (EJMO), four-corner 3318$_1$, composition ⿰氵定)
* shallow water
* swamp
* swampy

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 628, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17610
* Dae Jaweon: page 1030, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1661, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6DC0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 綻 | *rdeːns |
| 淀 | *deːns |
| 靛 | *deːns |
| 症 | *tjɯŋs |
| 竀 | *rtʰeːŋ, *tʰeŋ |
| 征 | *tjeŋ |
| 怔 | *tjeŋ |
| 正 | *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs |
| 鉦 | *tjeŋ |
| 鴊 | *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs |
| 眐 | *tjeŋ |
| 佂 | *tjeŋ |
| 整 | *tjeŋʔ |
| 政 | *tjeŋs |
| 証 | *tjeŋs |
| 定 | *teːŋs, *deːŋs |
| 顁 | *teːŋs |
| 錠 | *teːŋs, *deːŋʔ, *deːŋs |
| 掟 | *deːŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *deːns): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 定 (OC *teːŋs, *deːŋs)

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 淀 – see 澱 (“to settle; to precipitate; sediment; dregs”). (This character is the simplified form of 澱).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diàn (dian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): din$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
*** Wade–Giles: tien$^4$
*** Yale: dyàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
*** Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: din$^6$
*** Yale: dihn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: din$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: din$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːn²²/
* Middle Chinese: denH
Rime :
| Character | 淀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 堂練切 |
| Baxter | denH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /den$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /den$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɛn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dɛn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /den$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /dien$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /dʱien$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | diàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | din$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*deːns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 淀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17164 |
| Phonetic component | 正 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 電 |
| Old Chinese | /*deːns/ |

#### Definitions

淀
* shallow lake

#### Compounds

* 水淀 (shuǐdiàn)
* 海淀 (Hǎidiàn)

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02125

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: でん (den)
* Kan-on: てん (ten)
* Kun: よど (yodo, 淀)、よどむ (yodomu, 淀む)

## Korean
### Hanja

淀 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

淀: Hán Nôm readings: điện
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#### References

* Nom Foundation