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佇

佇

佇 U+4F47, 佇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F47
← 但
[U+4F46] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 佈 →
[U+4F48]
See also: 伫 and 仃

Translingual

Han character

佇 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人十一弓 (OJMN), four-corner 23221, composition ⿰亻宁)

References

  • KangXi: page 97, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 496
  • Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 139, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4F47

Chinese

trad. 佇
simp. 伫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佇
Large seal script

L14451
Small seal script

s05926
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (宁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貯 *taʔ
詝 *taʔ
柠 *tʰaʔ
宁 *da, *daʔ
佇 *daʔ
竚 *daʔ
苧 *daʔ
紵 *daʔ
羜 *daʔ
眝 *daʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *daʔ) : semantic 人 ‎(“man”) + phonetic 宁 ‎(OC *da, *daʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 佇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直吕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiɔX/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhù
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 佇
Reading # 1/1
No. 17633
Phonetic
component		 宁
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*daʔ/

Definitions

佇

  1. wait
  2. look towards
  3. turn one's back on
  4. (Min Nan) (located) in, at
  5. (Min Nan) to exist, to be (located)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 於
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 在
Mandarin Beijing 在、挨、跟
Taiwan 在
Jinan 在、從
Xi'an 在
Wuhan 在
Chengdu 在
Yangzhou 在
Hefei 在
Cantonese Guangzhou 喺、響
Hong Kong 喺、響
Taishan 到、響
Yangjiang 在
Gan Nanchang 在
Hakka Meixian 喺
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 在
Liudui (S. Sixian) 在
Hsinchu (Hailu) 在
Dongshi (Dabu) 在
Zhuolan (Raoping) 在
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 在
Jin Taiyuan 在
Min Bei Jian'ou 到
Min Dong Fuzhou 著、在、洽
Min Nan Quanzhou 佇
Xiamen 佇、踮
Zhangzhou 佇
Taipei 佇、踮 mT
Kaohsiung 佇
Tainan 佇
Taichung 佇
Yilan 佇
Lukang 佇
Sanxia 佇
Kinmen 佇
Magong 佇
Hsinchu 佇
Malaysia 佇
Chaozhou 在
Shantou 在
Wu Shanghai 辣、辣辣、辣海
Suzhou 勒
Wenzhou 是
Xiang Changsha 在
Shuangfeng 在
Note mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

References

Japanese

Kanji

佇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

佇 • ‎(jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

佇 (giữ, trữ)

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