庭 U+5EAD, 庭 ← 庬[U+5EAC] CJK Unified Ideographs 庮 →[U+5EAE]

(Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 戈弓大土 (INKG), four-corner 00241, composition ⿸广廷)

  • 𡟾, 㨩, 𪶹, 𤠜, 榳, 𭵬, 𤧻, 𦪅, 𨫆, 𬝪, 𡀈, 𮦥
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 882, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5EAD

simp. and trad. 2nd round simp. 𨑳

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l’eːŋ): semantic 广 + phonetic (OC *l’eːŋ, *l’eːŋʔ).

Related to 挺 (OC *l’eːŋ, *l’eːŋʔ, “to stick out, straighten up; straight, stiff; quite”); see there for more (STEDT). The semantic shift to “courtyard” may be due to courtyards being areas for upright behavior.

  1. courtyard
  2. front yard
  3. big hall
  4. law court
  5. middle of the forehead
  • “庭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “庭”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 275.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. courtyard
  2. garden
  3. yard
  • Go-on: じょう (jō)←ぢやう (dyau, historical)
  • Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
  • Kun: にわ (niwa, , Jōyō)←には (nifa, , historical)

Kanji in this term 庭 にわGrade: 3 kun’yomi

/nipa/ → /nifa/ → /niwa/

From Old Japanese.

  • (Tokyo) にわ [nìwá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɲ̟iβ̞a̠]

庭(にわ) • (niwa) ←には (nifa)?

  1. garden, yard
    • 1235, Shinchokusen Wakashū (book 16, poem 1052; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 96) 花(はな)さそふ嵐(あらし)の庭(には)の雪(ゆき)ならでふりゆくものはわが身(み)なりけりhana sasou arashi no niwa no yuki nara de furi yuku mono wa waga mi nari keriIt entices the flowers―the storm―but though the garden’s white, it is not snow, and what it is that’s scattering are, in fact, the years of my life![2]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:庭.

    庭(にわ)で美味(おい)しい魚(さかな)を食(た)べた。Niwa de oishii sakana o tabeta.I ate a delicious fish in the garden.

  2. place where something is done 学(まな)びの庭(にわ)manabi no niwakindergarten; place of learning
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:庭.
  3. (regional) a dirt-floored room at the entrance of a house[3]
  4. wide sea, a wide expanse (of the sea)
  • 公園(こうえん) (kōen): park

庭(にわ) • (Niwa) ←には (Nifa)?

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname
  • “庭”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

From Middle Chinese 庭 (MC deng).

Historical readings Dongguk Jeongun reading Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 뗘ᇰ (Yale: ttyèng) Middle Korean Text Eumhun Gloss (hun) Reading Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[3] ᄠᅳᆯ〮 (Yale: ptúl) 뎌ᇰ (Yale: tyèng)

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹ŋ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [정]

(eumhun 뜰 정 (tteul jeong))

  1. hanja form? of (“courtyard; garden”) [affix]
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [4]

庭: Hán Nôm readings: đình, thính

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