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甸

diān, diàn

suburbs of capital

Same in origin to 佃. Depicts a person (勹) working in the fields (田). 田 also represents the sound. The meaning later shifted to "crops" and "suburbs of capital".

Components
勹 iconic component

勹  Iconic component

bāo

  

wrap

Depicts a person.

田 sound,iconic component

田  Sound Iconic component

tián

  

field

Evolution

甸 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
甸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甸 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
甸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

甸  

diān

suburbs of capital; govern; crops

甸  

Diàn

surname Dian

甸  

diàn

suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China; official in charge of fields (old)

Most common words with 甸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缅甸

Myanmar (or Burma)

伊甸园

Garden of Eden

甸

suburbs or outskirts

沉甸甸

heavy

草甸

meadow

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤiŋ-s

denH

diàn

open space outside city


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.3455% of movies

2960th most common character in movies

2588th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+7538

Shuowen

“甸，天子五百里地。从田，包省。”


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