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翟

翟

Translingual

Han character

翟 (radical 124 羽+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一人土 (SMOG), four-corner 17214, composition ⿱羽隹)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 957, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28727
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3350, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7FDF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翟

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 翟 翟
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 陌 (113) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II IV
Fanqie 瑒伯切 徒歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠæk̚/ /dek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚak̚/ /dek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡak̚/ /dɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖaɨjk̚/ /dɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ȡɐk̚/ /dek̚/
Wang
Li		 /ȡɐk̚/ /diek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱɐk̚/ /dʱiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhé dí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤewk/
English pheasant

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 翟 翟
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2227 2231
Phonetic
component		 翟 翟
Rime
group		 鐸 藥
Rime
subdivision		 0 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 荻
Old
Chinese		 /*r'aːwɢ/ /*l'eːwɢ/
Notes 即表有長尾羽之雉

Definitions

翟

  1. (zhái): A surname​.
  2. (dí): A long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes.
  3. (dí): An alternative name for dí (狄).

Japanese

Kanji

翟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. kind of pheasant

Readings

Korean

Hanja

翟 • ‎(jeok, chaek) (hangeul 적, 책, revised jeok, chaek, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, ch'aek, Yale cek, chayk)

  1. pheasant

Vietnamese

Han character

翟 (địch)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 翟
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (翟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫂 *r'eːwɢs
濯 *r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀 *lewɢs
曜 *lewɢs
燿 *lewɢs
糶 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
粜 *l̥ʰeːwɢs
嬥 *l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
藋 *l'eːwɢs
躍 *lewɢ
戳 *r'eːwɢ
擢 *r'eːwɢ
蠗 *r'eːwɢ
鸐 *r'eːwɢ
翟 *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
趯 *l̥ʰeːwɢ
籊 *l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
糴 *l'eːwɢ
䊮 *l'eːwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 羽 ‎(“feather”) + 隹 ‎(“bird”).

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