燈

See also: 灯
燈 U+71C8, 燈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71C8
← 燇
[U+71C7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 燉 →
[U+71C9]

Translingual
Japanese 灯
Simplified 灯
Traditional 燈

Han character

燈 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火弓人廿 (FNOT), four-corner 92818, composition ⿰火登)

References
  • KangXi: page 682, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19402
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2238, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+71C8

Chinese
trad. 燈
simp. 灯

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (登) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
登 *tɯːŋ
璒 *tɯːŋ
燈 *tɯːŋ
簦 *tɯːŋ
蹬 *tɯːŋ, *dɯːŋs
磴 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs, *tʰɯːŋ
鐙 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs
嶝 *tɯːŋs
隥 *tɯːŋs
橙 *tɯːŋs, *rdɯːŋ
凳 *tɯːŋs
墱 *tɯːŋs
鼟 *tʰɯːŋ
膯 *tʰɯːŋ
澄 *dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ
鄧 *dɯːŋs
僜 *dɯːŋs, *tʰɯŋ
覴 *tʰɯŋs
瞪 *dɯŋ, *dɯŋs, *rdɯːŋ
憕 *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ, *rdɯːŋ
撜 *tjɯŋʔ
證 *tjɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tɯːŋ) : semantic 火 (“candlelight”) + phonetic 登 (OC *tɯːŋ).

Etymology
to jinx
From 燈神／灯神. See there for more.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • dĭng - colloquial;
  • dĕng - literary.
Rime
Character 燈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都滕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /təŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /təŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /təŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /təŋ/
Li
Rong		 /təŋ/
Wang
Li		 /təŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /təŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 dang1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tong ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k-tˁəŋ/
English lamp

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 燈
Reading # 1/1
No. 2171
Phonetic
component		 登
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*tɯːŋ/
Notes 鐙後起分化字

Definitions

燈

  1. lamp; light; lantern (for illumination) (Classifier: 盞／盏 m c h; 眼 c; 支 mn)
    電燈／电灯  ―  diàndēng  ―  electric light
    熄燈／熄灯  ―  xīdēng  ―  to turn off a light
  2. lamp (for heating)
    酒精燈／酒精灯  ―  jiǔjīngdēng  ―  alcohol burner
  3. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) to jinx; to often make incorrect predictions

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 燈 (“lamp; light”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 燈
Mandarin Taiwan 燈
Xi'an 燈
Chengdu 亮
Guilin 燈
Malaysia 火, 燈
Singapore 燈
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 燈
Cantonese Guangzhou 燈
Hong Kong 燈
Taishan 燈, 火
Singapore (Guangfu) 燈, 火
Gan Nanchang 燈
Hakka Meixian 燈
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 燈, 火
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 燈, 火
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 燈, 火
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 燈, 火
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 燈, 火
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 燈, 火
Jin Taiyuan 燈
Min Dong Fuzhou 燈
Min Nan Xiamen 燈
Penang (Hokkien) 燈, 火
Singapore (Hokkien) 火
Manila (Hokkien) 火, 燈
Singapore (Teochew) 火, 燈
Waxiang Guzhang (Gaofeng) 燈
Wu Suzhou 燈
Ningbo 燈, 亮 dated
Wenzhou 燈
Xiang Changsha 燈, 亮
Xiangxiang 燈

Compounds
Derived terms from 燈

Japanese

Kanji
燈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 灯)

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 燈 (MC təŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 드ᇰ (tung) (Yale: tung) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 燈 (eumhun 등 등 (deung deung))

  1. Hanja form? of 등 (“lamp, lantern, light”).

Compounds
Compounds

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

Vietnamese

Han character

燈: Hán Nôm readings: đăng

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