遁

遁 U+9041, 遁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9041 ← 遀 [U+9040] CJK Unified Ideographs 遂 → [U+9042]

Translingual

Han character

遁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹十山 (YHJU), four-corner 3230₆, composition ⿺辶盾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1260, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38982
• Dae Jaweon: page 1750, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3859, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9041

Chinese

trad.		遁
simp. #		遁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
盾	*l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ
遁	*l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns
循	*ljun
揗	*ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns
楯	*ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ
輴	*l̥ʰun
腯	*l'uːd
鍎	*l'uːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 盾 (OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùn (dun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deon⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùn
    • Wade–Giles: tun⁴
    • Yale: dwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duenn
    • Palladius: дунь (dunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: deon⁶
    • Yale: deuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: dwonX, dwonH

Rime
Character	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒損切	徒困切
Baxter	dwonX	dwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duənX/	/duənH/
Pan Wuyun	/duonX/	/duonH/
Shao Rongfen	/duənX/	/duənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dwənX/	/dwənH/
Li Rong	/duənX/	/duənH/
Wang Li	/duənX/	/duənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuənX/	/dʱuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dùn	dùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	deon6	deon6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤu[n]ʔ/, /*lˤu[n]ʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'uːnʔ/, /*l'uːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dùn	dùn
Middle Chinese	‹ dwonX ›	‹ dwonH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁu[n]ʔ/	/*lˁu[n]ʔ-s/
English	withdraw	withdraw
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	遁	遁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2624	2625
Phonetic component	盾	盾
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	囤	鈍
Old Chinese	/*l'uːnʔ/	/*l'uːns/

Definitions

遁

1. to escape; to flee; to evade
2. to hide away; to conceal oneself

Compounds

• 土遁
• 奇門遁甲／奇门遁甲 (qíméndùnjiǎ)
• 支遁
• 支遁買山／支遁买山
• 望風而遁／望风而遁
• 棲遁／栖遁
• 水遁
• 深藏遠遁／深藏远遁
• 潛身遠遁／潜身远遁
• 無所遁形／无所遁形 (wúsuǒdùnxíng)
• 禽奔獸遁／禽奔兽遁
• 肥遁
• 逃遁 (táodùn)
• 遁世 (dùnshì)
• 遁世逃名
• 違世遁俗／违世遁俗
• 遁世離群／遁世离群
• 遁佚
• 遁入空門／遁入空门 (dùnrùkōngmén)
• 遁化
• 遁北
• 遁名匿跡／遁名匿迹
• 遁形
• 遁甲 (dùnjiǎ)
• 遁藏
• 遁走 (dùnzǒu)
• 遁跡／遁迹 (dùnjì)
• 遁跡潛形／遁迹潜形
• 遁跡銷聲／遁迹销声
• 遁身
• 遁辭／遁辞
• 遁逃 (dùntáo)
• 遜遁／逊遁
• 遠遁／远遁 (yuǎndùn)
• 遠遁山林／远遁山林
• 隱遁／隐遁
• 高飛遠遁／高飞远遁

 

Japanese

Kanji

遁

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. to escape, to run away

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)、どん (don)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)、とん (ton)
• Kun: にげる (nigeru, 遁げる)、のがれる (nogareru, 遁れる)

Compounds

• 遁走(とんそう) (tonsō)
• 水遁(すいとん) (suiton)
• 逃遁(ちょうとん) (chōton)

Noun

Alternative forms

• 遁れ, 逃れ, 逃

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) のがれ [nògáréꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [no̞ɡa̠ɾe̞]

Etymology

Kanji in this term
遁
のがれ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 遁れる (nogareru, “to run away, to escape”). 遁(のがれ) • (nogare) 

1. an escape, a dodge, avoidance, evasion

Usage notes

The 逃れ spelling is more common.

Korean

Hanja

遁 • (dun, don) (hangeul 둔, 돈, revised dun, don, McCune–Reischauer tun, ton, Yale twun, ton)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遁: Hán Nôm readings: độn, rộn, trốn, dọn, nhộn, trộn, tuần

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References

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