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替
替
Translingual
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Han character
替 (radical 73 曰+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手人日 (QOA), four-corner 55603, composition ⿱㚘曰)
See also
References
- KangXi: page 503, character 4
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14300
 - Dae Jaweon: page 877, character 3
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1515, character 8
 - Unihan data for U+66FF
 
Chinese
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simp. and trad. | 
替 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 替
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script | 
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (替) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 替 | *tʰiːds | 
| 暜 | *tʰiːds | 
| 僣 | *tʰiːd | 
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 竝 + 曰 – two figures (竝) changing places. Two top components have been simplified from 立 to 夫.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
 - Cantonese (Jyutping): tai3
 - Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thai / thi
 - Min Nan (POJ): thè / thòe
 - Wu (Wiktionary): thi (T2)
 
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˋ
 - Wade-Giles: t'ih4
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tih
 - IPA (key): /tʰi⁵¹/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tai3
 - Yale: tai
 - Cantonese Pinyin: tai3
 - IPA (key): /tʰɐi̯³³/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thai / thi
 - Hakka Romanization System: tai / ti
 - Hagfa Pinyim: tai4 / ti4
 - IPA: /tʰa̯i⁵⁵/, /tʰi⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
 - Min Nan
 -  Wu
-  (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: thi (T2)
 - IPA (key): /tʰi³⁴/
 
 
 -  (Shanghainese)
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 替 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) | 
| Final (韻) | 齊 (39) | 
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | IV | 
| Fanqie | 他計切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/tʰeiH/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/tʰeiH/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/tʰɛiH/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/tʰɛjH/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/tʰeiH/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/tʰieiH/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/tʰieiH/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
tì | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 替 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
tì | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ thejH › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*n̥ˤi[t]-s/ | 
| English | discard | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 替 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 12378 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
替 | 
| Rime group  | 
至 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
替 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*tʰiːds/ | 
| Notes | 説文作暜 | 
Definitions
替
- to substitute
 -  for; in place of
-  
- 他替我去了趟超市。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
 - Tā tì wǒ qù le tàng chāoshì. [Pinyin]
 - He went to the supermarket for me. [Originally, I was the person who should go to the supermarket]
 
 -  
- 奴才替天下百姓感激皇太后恩典! [MSC, trad. and simp.]
 - From: The Firmament of the Pleiades
 - Núcái tì tiānxiàbǎixìng gǎnjī huángtàihòu ēndiǎn! [Pinyin]
 - I, on behalf of the people throughout the world, [hereby] express my gratitude for the kindness of the empress dowager!
 
 
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
替
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
替 • (che) (hangeul 체, revised che, McCune-Reischauer ch'e, Yale chey)
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