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diàn
  1. 1.suburbs or outskirts
  2. 2.one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China
  3. 3.official in charge of fields (old)
Diàn
  1. 1.surname Dian

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.suburbs of the capital
  2. 2.field; open country; used in place names, chiefly in Yunnan and North-Eastern China
  3. 3.to govern
  4. 4.crops
  5. 5.Used in transcription.
  6. 6.used in 沉甸甸 (chéndiàndiàn)
  7. 7.ancient form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt (wild animals)”)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'iːŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”). Exopassive of 田 (OC *l'iːŋ, “field”), literally "what is being/has been cultivated" (Schuessler, 2007).

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