凳

Han character edit

凳 (Kangxi radical 16, 几+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 弓廿竹弓 (NTHN), four-corner 1221₇, composition ⿱登几)

Derived characters edit

• 櫈

References edit

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 134, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1797
• Dae Jaweon: page 300, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 278, character 20
• Unihan data for U+51F3

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tɯːŋs) : phonetic 登 (OC *tɯːŋ) + semantic 几 (“table; stool”).

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

凳

1. bench, stool

   凳子  ―  dèngzi  ―  bench, stool

   • 加以進了幾回城，阿Q自然更自負，然而他又很鄙薄城裏人，譬如用三尺三寸寬的木板做成的凳子，未莊人叫“長凳”，他也叫“長凳”，城裏人卻叫“條凳”，他想：這是錯的，可笑！ [MSC, trad.]
     加以进了几回城，阿Q自然更自负，然而他又很鄙薄城里人，譬如用三尺三寸宽的木板做成的凳子，未庄人叫“长凳”，他也叫“长凳”，城里人却叫“条凳”，他想：这是错的，可笑！ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 魯迅 Lu Xun, 《阿Q正傳》 The True Story of Ah Q, 1921; translation by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang.

     Jiāyǐ jìn le jǐhuí chéng, Āguì zìrán gèng zìfù, rán'ér tā yòu hěn bǐbó chénglǐrén, pìrú yòng sānchǐ sāncùn kuān de mùbǎn zuòchéng de dèngzǐ, Wèizhuāng rén jiào “chángdèng”, tā yě jiào “chángdèng”, chénglǐ rén què jiào “tiáodèng”, tā xiǎng: zhè shì cuò de, kěxiào! [Pinyin]

     Moreover, after Ah Q had been to town several times, he naturally became even more conceited, although at the same time he had the greatest contempt for townspeople. For instance, a bench made of a wooden plank three feet by three inches the Weichuang villagers called a "long bench." Ah Q called it a "long bench" too; but the townspeople called it a "straight bench," and he thought, "This is wrong. How ridiculous!"

2. (dialectal) chair (Classifier: 張／张 c)

   呢張凳真係好唔穩陣。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   呢张凳真系好唔稳阵。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ni¹ zoeng¹ dang³ zan¹ hai⁶ hou² m⁴ wan² zan⁶. [Jyutping]

   This chair is really wobbly.

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Compounds edit

Descendants edit

• → Khmer: តាំង (tang)
• → Proto-Tai: *taŋᴮ
  • Lao: ຕັ່ງ (tang)
  • Thai: ตั่ง (dtàng)
  • Zhuang: daengq

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)
• Kun: ひざかけのたぐい (hizakakenotagui)

Hanja edit

凳 (eum 등 (deung))

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Han character edit

凳: Hán Nôm readings: đắng, đẵng, đặng

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