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Translingual

Han character

(radical 142 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心廿木 (LIPTD), four-corner 54194, composition)

  1. butterfly

References

  • KangXi: page 1091, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33333
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2868, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8776

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɦljebs, *hljebs
*l̥ʰebs, *lebs
*ʔljebs
*hljebs
*lebs, *sled
*lebs
*lebs
*lebs
*lebs
*lebs, *led
*lebs
*lebs, *libs
*l̥ʰeːbs
*l̥ʰaːb, *l'eːb
*zreːb, *sled
*zreːb, *l̥ʰeb, *leb
*rlaːb, *ʔl'eːb, *l'eːb
*rlaːb, *sleːb
*l'eb, *leb, *lab
*hljeb, *leb
*hljeb, *hleːb
*hljeb, *sleːb
*leb
*leb
*leb, *l'eːb, *ɦljed
*leb
*leb, *hleːb
*l̥ʰeːb, *l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*l'eːb
*sleːb
*sleːb
*sled
*sled
*sled
*sled
*sled

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (6) (7)
Final () (158) (158)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛp̚/ /dɛp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛp̚/ /dɛp̚/
Li
Rong
/tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Wang
Li
/tʰiep̚/ /diep̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰiep̚/ /dʱiep̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tie dié
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dié
Middle
Chinese
‹ dep ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤep/
English hu-dep: butterfly

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11570 11580
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰeːb/ /*l'eːb/
Notes

Definitions

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References


Japanese

Etymology

tepu > tefu > *tewu > teu > /tyoː/ [choː].

Noun

(hiragana ちょう, romaji chō, historical hiragana てふ)

  1. butterfly

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

See also


Korean

Hanja

(jeop) (hangeul , revised jeop, McCune-Reischauer chŏp, Yale cep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(điệp)

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