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甸

Mandarin · pinyin diàn#

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

Mandarin · pinyin Diàn#

surname Dian

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甸: diàn · suburbs of capital; govern; crops

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4 · dian4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

din1 · din6 · tin4

Cantonese word readings for 甸. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(literary) suburbs of the capital
(literary) field; open country; used in place names, chiefly in Yunnan and North-Eastern China
(obsolete) to govern
(obsolete) crops

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(chiefly Cantonese) Used in transcription.

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used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn)

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ancient form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt (wild animals)”)

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