坫

See also: 店

坫 U+576B, 坫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-576B ← 坪 [U+576A] CJK Unified Ideographs 坬 → [U+576C]

Translingual

Han character

坫 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 土卜口 (GYR), four-corner 4116₀, composition ⿰土占)

Derived characters

• 㼭

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4979
• Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 430, character 12
• Unihan data for U+576B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		坫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 坫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (占) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	*ɦlaːm, *hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	*rteːm, *rdeːms, *teːm, *tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	*slem, *ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	*tem, *teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	*tems, *tʰem
鉆	*tʰem, *ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	*ʔljem, *tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	*tjems, *teːm
苫	*hljem, *hljems
痁	*hljem, *teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	*teːmʔ, *teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	*tiːms, *tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	*teːb, *tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diàn (dian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dim³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dieng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diàn
    • Wade–Giles: tien⁴
    • Yale: dyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diann
    • Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dim³
    • Yale: dim
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dim³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dim³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːm³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dia̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiɛŋ⁴²/

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• Middle Chinese: temH

Rime
Character	坫
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	添 (157)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都念切
Baxter	temH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/temH/
Pan Wuyun	/temH/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛmH/
Li Rong	/temH/
Wang Li	/tiemH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tiemH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dim3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tiːms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	坫
Reading #	1/2
No.	16724
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	店
Old Chinese	/*tiːms/

Definitions

坫

1. stand on which to replace goblets after drinking in ancient China
2. (literary) literary circle

Compounds

• 反坫
• 壇坫 / 坛坫
• 壇坫週旋 / 坛坫周旋

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhēn (zhen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhen
    • Wade–Giles: chên¹
    • Yale: jēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jen
    • Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trim

Rime
Character	坫
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	知林切
Baxter	trim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈjim/
Li Rong	/ȶjəm/
Wang Li	/ȶĭĕm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zam1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tim/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	坫
Reading #	2/2
No.	16736
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	碪
Old Chinese	/*tim/

Definitions

坫

1. (historical dictionaries only) to place the coffin before burial

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “坫”, 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

坫

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. stand on which to replace goblets after drinking

Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten)、ちん (chin)
• Kun: さかい (sakai)

Korean

Hanja

坫 • (jeom) (hangeul 점)

1. boundary
2. limit
3. a saucer for a wine cup

Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 占 (chiêm).

Han character

坫: Hán Việt readings: điếm
坫: Nôm readings: xóm, đám, đúm, trèm, xúm, điếm, chúm, chum, điệm, xôm

1. chữ Nôm form of xóm (“neighborhood”)