Translingual

Han character

痴 (radical 104 疒+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大人大口 (KOKR), four-corner 0016₀, composition ⿸疒知)

1. foolish, stupid, dumb, silly

References

• KangXi: page 774, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22257
• Dae Jaweon: page 1185, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2681, character 1
• Unihan data for U+75F4

Chinese

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Pronunciation

Definitions

痴

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 癡)

1. stupid
2. foolish

Readings

• Goon: ち (chi)
• Kan’on: ち (chi)
• Kun: おこ (oko), うこ (uko), しれ (shire)

Compounds

• 痴女 (ちじょ) ‎(chijo)
• 痴漢 (ちかん) ‎(chikan)

Etymology 1

/woko/ → /oko/

From Old Japanese.^[1]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) お​こ [óꜜkò] (Atamadaka - [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞ko̞]

Alternative forms

• 烏滸, 尾籠

Adjective

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, -na inflection, hiragana おこ, romaji oko, historical hiragana をこ)

1. foolish, absurd
2. indecent, indelicate

Inflection

Usage notes

Historical sources^[1][2] show that this term is more often used as an attributive noun, followed by possessive particle の ‎(no) when used to modify another noun.

Noun

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, hiragana おこ, romaji oko, historical hiragana をこ)

1. foolishness, stupidity
2. indecency, indelicateness

Etymology 2

/woko/ → /uko/

Sound shift from Old Japanese woko.^[1] Obsolete.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɯᵝko̞]

Adjective

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, -na inflection, hiragana うこ, romaji uko)

1. (obsolete) foolish, absurd
2. (obsolete) indecent, indelicate

Inflection

Noun

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, hiragana うこ, romaji uko)

1. foolishness, stupidity
2. indecency, indelicateness

Etymology 3

Nominalization of the 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 痴れる ‎(shireru, “to become dimwitted, to become stupid”).^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɕiɺ̠e̞]

Alternative forms

• 痴れ

Noun

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, hiragana しれ, romaji shire)

1. foolishness, stupidity

Etymology 4

From Middle Chinese 癡 ‎(tjiə). Compare modern Mandarin simplified 痴 and traditional 癡 ‎(chī).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) ち​ [chíꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi]

Noun

痴 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 癡, hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. foolishness, stupidity
2. (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 1 2 3 4 5 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

痴 • ‎(chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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