端

duān

old variant of 端[duan1]

start; origin

standing upright (立) + sound (耑) = a proper, upright start

立 anchors the meaning: something upright, properly established, at its starting point. 耑 mainly contributes the sound duān and does not add semantic weight here.

立+耑→端
立Standing uprightSemantic
耑An older character with its own historyPhonetic

事情的起端还不清楚。

shì qíng de qǐ duān hái bù qīng chǔ。

The start of the matter is still not clear.

这场争论的发端很难找到。

zhè chǎng zhēng lùn de fā duān hěn nán zhǎo dào。

The origin of this debate is very hard to find.

Words with 端

争端

zhēng duān

dispute

远端

yuǎn duān

the far end (of an object)

端坐

duān zuò

to sit upright

云端

yún duān

high in the clouds

西端

xī duān

western extremity

连锅端

lián guō duān

to take even the cooking pots (idiom)

远端工作

yuǎn duān gōng zuò

to telecommute; to work remotely

远端胞浆

yuǎn duān bāo jiāng

distal cytoplasm

远端转移

yuǎn duān zhuǎn yí

metastasis

衅端

xìn duān

pretext for a dispute

钩端螺旋体病

gōu duān luó xuán tǐ bìng

leptospirosis

开端

kāi duān

start

More characters with 立

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