尊

尊 U+5C0A, 尊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C0A
← 尉
[U+5C09] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尋 →
[U+5C0B]

Translingual

Han character

尊 (radical 41, 寸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田木戈 (TWDI), four-corner 80346, composition ⿱酋寸)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 295, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7445
  • Dae Jaweon: page 585, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 509, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5C0A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 尊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尊
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (尊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尊 *ʔsuːn
樽 *ʔsuːn
罇 *ʔsuːn
嶟 *ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
繜 *ʔsuːn
撙 *ʔsuːnʔ
噂 *ʔsuːnʔ
譐 *ʔsuːnʔ
僔 *ʔsuːnʔ
蹲 *zuːn
鱒 *zuːnʔ, *zuːns
鐏 *zuːns
遵 *ʔsun
鷷 *ʔsun, *zun
墫 *sʰun
竴 *sʰun

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 酋 (“vinegar”) + 寸 (“hand”) – to give 寸 an offering 酋 – respect, veneration.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 尊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 祖昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡suon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡suən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡swən/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suən/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zūn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尊 尊
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zūn zūn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tswon › ‹ tswon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤu[n]/ /*[ts]ˤu[n]/
English honor (v.) wine-cup

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 尊
Reading # 1/1
No. 17984
Phonetic
component		 尊
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 尊
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsuːn/

Definitions

尊

  1. to respect; to revere; to venerate
  2. to honor

Synonyms

  • (respect): 敬 (jìng), 崇 (chóng), 重 (zhòng)
  • (respectable): 崇 (chóng)

Antonyms

  • (respect): 鄙 (bǐ), 蔑 (miè), 藐 (miǎo)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

尊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. noble
  2. god, exalted, deity who happens to be an Amatsukami and an ancestral deity (sōjin) of the Imperial House; it is then read "Mikoto".

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

尊 (hiragana たかし, rōmaji Takashi)

  1. A male given name.

尊 (hiragana たける, rōmaji Takeru)

  1. A male given name.

Korean

Hanja

尊 • (jon)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 존 (revised: jon, McCune–Reischauer: chon)
    • Name (hangeul): 높을 (revised: nopeun, McCune–Reischauer: nop'ŭn, Yale: nophun)
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Vietnamese

Han character

尊 (tôn, nhôn, ton, tun, tặng)

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