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端

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端

  • duān (duan¹) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄉㄨㄢ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • duan¹ Mandarin, Chengdu, Sichuanese
  • dyun¹ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • tôn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • duăng Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • toaⁿ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • toan Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • duêng¹ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • duang¹ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ¹toe Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • duān Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • duan Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • tuan¹ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • dwān Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • duan Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • дуань Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /tu̯än⁵⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • duan Mandarin, Chengdu, Latinxua Sin Wenz
  • /tuan⁵⁵/ Mandarin, Chengdu, IPA
  • dyun¹ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • dyūn Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • dyn¹ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • dün¹ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • /tyːn⁵⁵/ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • tôn Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli
  • don^ˊ Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli

Where it comes from

形聲漢字（上古 *toːn）：意符 立 + 聲符 耑 (上古 *toːn) 。

“果真”

釋義 耑

  1. 以手托物
  2. 事物的頭尾
  3. 事物的起始、原因 開端
  4. 正的，直的，不歪斜的 端正
  5. 項目，方面
  6. 心思，思緒
  7. 人 正派，正直，適當
  8. 消滅，毀滅 警方端掉販毒窩點。
  9. colloquial, derogatory, figuratively, 通常後面會接著／着 擺，擺架子；裝腔作勢
  10. 到底，究竟
  11. 果真 端的
  12. 漢語語言學 (～母) 中古漢語的一個聲母（端 (中古 twan)）
  13. 姓氏

In English

  • end extreme part

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {端},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E7%AB%AF},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}