殿
殿 — jeon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 전각 전
- Romanization
- jeon
- English
- hall; palace; temple
- Mandarin
- diàn
- Japanese on'yomi
- デン, テン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- との -どの
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,199 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 殳 (79, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6BBF
How 殿 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 殿 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 臀, 殳.
Korean example words with 殿
- 전문殿門 Korean gloss: 궁전의 문
- 전정殿庭 Korean gloss: 궁전의 뜰
- 욕전浴殿 Korean gloss: 훌륭한 욕실
- 궁전宮殿 Korean gloss: 임금이 거처하는 집
- 전상殿上 Korean gloss: 전각이나 궁전의 위
- 내전內殿 Korean gloss: 왕비가 거처하던 궁전
- 중전中殿 Korean gloss: 왕비가 거처하던 궁전
- 전대殿臺 Korean gloss: 전각의 난간이 달린 대
- 신전神殿 Korean gloss: 신령을 모신 전각(殿閣)
- 금전金殿 Korean gloss: 금으로 꾸민 전각이나 전당
- 대전大殿 Korean gloss: ‘임금’을 높여 이르는 말
- 본전本殿 Korean gloss: 신령을 모시는 전당(殿堂)
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 殿
- 殿下でんか Your Highness; His Highness; Her Highness
- 殿どの Mr.; Mrs.; Miss
- 宮殿きゅうでん palace
- 殿堂でんどう palace; hall; shrine
- 神殿しんでん temple; shrine; sanctuary
- 殿様とのさま nobleman; dignitary; lord
- 御殿ごてん palace; court
- 正殿せいでん main temple; main building of a shrine; Shishiden
- 本殿ほんでん main hall (of a Shinto shrine); main shrine; inner sanctuary
- 妃殿下ひでんか princess; Her Royal Highness
- 社殿しゃでん (main building of a) Shinto shrine
- 仏殿ぶつでん temple building enshrining a statue of Buddha (esp. the main hall of a Zen Buddhist temple)
Characters sharing the phonetic 殿
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “전” in Korean.
Other hanja read “전”
Other hanja with radical 殳
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