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U+5718, 團
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5718

[U+5717]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5719]

Translingual

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Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 31, +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 田十戈戈 (WJII), four-corner 60343, composition )

Derived characters

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 221, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4834
  • Dae Jaweon: page 452, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 725, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5718

Chinese

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trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *doːn) : semantic + phonetic (OC *tjon).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • tuàng - literary;
  • diòng - vernacular (“united; assembled; to form a circle”, e.g. 團團).
Note:
  • thoân - literary;
  • thn̂g/thuîⁿ/thn̍gh - vernacular (“classifier for round, lumpy, or amorphous objects”);
  • tôaⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
  • tuang5 - Shantou;
  • tuêng5 - Chaozhou.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tʰuan³⁵/
Harbin /tʰuan²⁴/
Tianjin /tʰuan⁴⁵/
Jinan /tʰuã⁴²/
Qingdao /tʰuã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tʰuan⁴²/
Xi'an /tʰuã²⁴/
Xining /tʰuã²⁴/
Yinchuan /tʰuan⁵³/
Lanzhou /tʰuɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /tʰuan⁵¹/
Wuhan /tʰan²¹³/
Chengdu /tʰuan³¹/
Guiyang /tʰuan²¹/
Kunming /tʰuã̠³¹/
Nanjing /tʰuaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /tʰʊ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰuæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /tuɑŋ¹³/ ~住
/tʰuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /tʰuæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /dø²³/
Suzhou /dø¹³/
Hangzhou /duõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /dø³¹/
Hui Shexian /tʰo⁴⁴/
Tunxi /tuːə⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /tõ¹³/
Xiangtan /dɔn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /tʰɵn²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /tʰon¹¹/
Taoyuan /tʰon¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰyn²¹/
Nanning /tʰyn²¹/
Hong Kong /tʰyn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tʰuan³⁵/
/tʰŋ̍³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tʰuaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰuiŋ²¹/
/tuiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /huaŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter dwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/dʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/duɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dwan/
Li
Rong
/duɑn/
Wang
Li
/duɑn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tuán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tyun4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tuán
Middle
Chinese
‹ dwan ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[d]ˁon/
English round, plenty

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17665
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːn/

Definitions

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  1. sphere; ball; circle
    圍住围住  ―  tuántuán wéizhù  ―  to encircle
      ―  tuán  ―  cushion (circular in shape)
  2. to roll (into a ball)
  3. mass; lump
      ―  miàntuán  ―  dough
  4. Classifier for round, lumpy, or amorphous objects.
      ―  tuán  ―  a clod; a lump of soil
    和氣和气  ―  tuánhéqì  ―  "a ball of friendly air"
  5. group; collective; panel; team; organization
    選舉人选举人  ―  xuǎnjǔréntuán  ―  electoral college
      ―  cáituán  ―  financial group
      ―  tuán  ―  team; collective
      ―  yuètuán  ―  music ensemble; orchestra
    1. tour group arranged by travel agency
      你們安排什麼項目 [MSC, trad.]
      你们安排什么项目 [MSC, simp.]
      Nǐmen zhèi tuánr dōu ānpái le shénme xiàngmu a? [Pinyin]
      What kind of programs do you provide for this tour group?
  6. (figurative, in compounds) tightly; completely; as an inseparable collective (suggestive of circles or tightly knit groups)
      ―  tuánjié  ―  to unite; to join each other; to stick together
      ―  tuányuán  ―  to reunite; to get together (with family members)
  7. (military) regiment; corps
  8. (military or paramilitary) formation; troops; armed organization
      ―  jūntuán  ―  legion
      ―  tuánliàn  ―  militia; local paramilitary organization
  9. (Mainland China) Short for 共青團共青团 (gòngqīngtuán, “Communist Youth League”).
      ―  tuánpài  ―  (Communist Youth) League Faction (Hu Jintao's faction)
  10. (graph theory) clique

Usage notes

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(military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a regiment of infantry was composed of three battalions () and some miscellaneous companies (). In turn, two regiments formed a brigade (). Three regiments could be formed into a triangular division, where the brigade structure was absent, as a division (整編師 / 編制師).

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: đoàn ()

Others:

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. association

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): だん (dan)とん (ton)どん (don)
  • Kun: まるい (marui, 團い)かたまり (katamari, )

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC dwan).

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 둥글 (dunggeul dan))

  1. hanja form? of (group)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: đoàn

  1. group
  2. party
  3. corps
  NODES
Association 1
Note 7