# 甸

| 甸 | U+7538, &#30008; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7538 |
| ← 男 [U+7537] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 甹 → [U+7539] |

## Translingual
### Han character

甸 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心田 (PW), four-corner 2762$_0$, composition ⿹勹田)

#### Derived characters

* 𭎧, 𣵦, 㭵, 𮴝, 𬗚, 蜔, 䡘(𬨉), 𰼲, 𱋽, 𠡪, 𰻫, 𢑜, 䓒, 𱋼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21732
* Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2528, character 8
* Unihan data for U+7538

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甸 :
| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script |
| | Old Chinese |
| 田 | *l'iːŋ |
| 佃 | *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs |
| 畋 | *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs |
| 畇 | *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin |
| 鈿 | *l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs |
| 沺 | *l'iːŋ |
| 甸 | *l'iːŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'iːŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”).

### Etymology

Exopassive of 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”), literally "what is being/has been cultivated" (Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diàn (dian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): din$^6$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): thien
    (Hailu, HRS): tien$^˖$
* Eastern Min (BUC): diêng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deng$^5$ / dieng$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiān / tián
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$di
* 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/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
*** Hakka Romanization System: tien
*** Hagfa Pinyim: tian$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: tien$^˖$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰien³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: diêng
*** Sinological IPA : /tiɛŋ²⁴²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: deng$^5$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dēng
*** Sinological IPA : /tɛŋ²¹/
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng$^5$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: diāng
*** Sinological IPA : /tiɛŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
*** Tâi-lô: tiān
*** Phofsit Daibuun: dien
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɛn³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tián
*** Tâi-lô: tián
*** Phofsit Daibuun: diern
*** IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn⁴¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$di
*** MiniDict: di$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$di
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²³/
* Middle Chinese: denH
Rime :
| Character | 甸 |
| 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
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤiŋ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 甸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | diàn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ den$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*lˁiŋ-s/ |
| English | open space outside city |
| 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 | 甸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12399 |
| Phonetic component | 田 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 電 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'iːŋs/ |

#### Definitions

甸
* (literary) suburbs of the capital
* (literary) field; open country; used in place names, chiefly in Yunnan and North-Eastern China
* (obsolete) to govern
* (obsolete) crops

#### Compounds

* 下緬甸 / 下缅甸 (Xià Miǎndiàn)
* 中甸 (Zhōngdiàn)
* 侯甸
* 坤甸 (Kūndiàn)
* 寬甸 / 宽甸 (Kuāndiàn)
* 施甸 (Shīdiàn)
* 曹妃甸 (Cáofēidiàn)
* 樺甸 / 桦甸 (Huàdiàn)
* 沙甸 (Shādiàn)
* 甸兒 / 甸儿
* 甸匣
* 甸子 (diànzi)
* 甸後 / 甸后
* 甸甸
* 畿甸 (jīdiàn)
* 禹甸
* 緬甸 / 缅甸 (Miǎndiàn)
* 緬甸聯邦 / 缅甸联邦
* 羅甸 / 罗甸 (Luódiàn)
* 芳甸
* 草甸子 (cǎodiànzi)
* 華甸 / 华甸
* 蒲甸兒 / 蒲甸儿
* 蔡甸 (Càidiàn)
* 近甸
* 邦甸
* 郊甸

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diàn (dian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): din$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thien
* 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$^1$
*** Yale: dīn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: din$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: din$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːn⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thien
*** Hakka Romanization System: tien
*** Hagfa Pinyim: tian$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

甸
* (chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

#### Compounds

* 伊甸 (Yīdiàn)
* 伊甸園 / 伊甸园 (Yīdiànyuán)
* 布甸 (bùdiàn)
* 沙甸 (saa$^1$ din$^1$) (Cantonese)
* 沙甸魚 / 沙甸鱼
* 甲巴甸
* 芒果布甸 (mángguǒ bùdiàn)
* 鴨巴甸 / 鸭巴甸 (Yābādiàn)

### Pronunciation 3

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diàn, diān (dian$^4$, dian$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ, ㄉㄧㄢ
* 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/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: diān
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dian
*** Wade–Giles: tien$^1$
*** Yale: dyān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dian
*** Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

甸
* Used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn).

### Pronunciation 4

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tián (tian$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tin$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tián
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tián
*** Wade–Giles: tʻien$^2$
*** Yale: tyán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
*** Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tin$^4$
*** Yale: tìhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tin$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰiːn²¹/

#### Definitions

甸
* Ancient form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt (wild animals)”)

### References

* “Query for 甸”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
* “甸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “甸”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 51.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: でん (den)
* Kan-on: てん (ten)
* Kun: かり (kari)

## Korean
### Hanja

甸 • (jeon, seung) (hangeul 전, 승)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

甸: Hán Nôm readings: điện, điền
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