端

端 U+7AEF, 端
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AEF
← 竮
[U+7AEE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 竰 →
[U+7AF0]

Translingual

Han character

端 (radical 117, 立+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿山一月 (YTUMB), four-corner 02127, composition ⿰立耑)

Derived characters
  • 𭋬, 𭢺, 𧞖, 𦾸, 𤻨, 𥵣

References
  • KangXi: page 872, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25806
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1303, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2714, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7AEF

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 端

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 端
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (耑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
揣 *toːlʔ, *sʰrolʔ
褍 *toːlʔ, *toːn
惴 *tjols
圌 *djol, *djon
篅 *djol, *djon
瑞 *djols
端 *toːn
剬 *toːn, *tjonʔ
偳 *toːn, *tʰoːn
鍴 *toːn
耑 *toːn
踹 *toːns, *djonʔ
湍 *tʰoːn, *tjon
煓 *tʰoːn
貒 *tʰoːn, *tʰoːns
諯 *stʰons, *tjon, *tʰjons, *djon
顓 *tjon
喘 *tʰjonʔ
遄 *djon
輲 *djon
椯 *djon
歂 *djon, *djonʔ
腨 *djonʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːn) : semantic 立 + phonetic 耑 (OC *toːn).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • toaⁿ - vernacular;
  • toan - literary.
Note:
  • duêng1 - Chaozhou;
  • duang1 - Shantou.
Rime
Character 端
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 多官切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /twan/
Li
Rong		 /tuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /tuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 duān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 端
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 duān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ twan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˁor/
English tip (n.)

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 端
Reading # 1/1
No. 2500
Phonetic
component		 耑
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 端
Old
Chinese		 /*toːn/

Definitions

端

  1. to hold something level with hand
  2. end; tip
  3. beginning; start
  4. upright; erect
  5. to wipe out; to destroy altogether
  6. (figuratively, colloquial, derogatory, usually followed by 著／着) to put on airs; to act pretentiously
  7. (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡊ (d-)

Compounds
Derived terms from 端

Japanese

Kanji
端

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
端
はし
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

端 (hiragana はし, rōmaji hashi)

  1. an edge; the beginning or end of something

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

端 • (dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune–Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

  1. See 단

Vietnamese

Han character

端 (đoan)

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