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Translingual

Han character

(radical 50 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜月中月 (YBLB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱⿳)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 330, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8865
  • Dae Jaweon: page 636, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 738, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5E1D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
*tʰeds, *teː
*teː, *teːɡs
*teːɡs
*teːɡs
*teːɡs
*teːɡs
*tʰeːɡs
*deː
*deː
*deː, *deːɡs
*deː
*deː
*deːɡs
*hljeɡs
*rteɡ, *teːɡ
*rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
*rteːɡ
*rteːɡ
*deɡ
*deɡ, *teːɡ
*tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
*teːɡ
*teːɡ
*teːɡ
*teːɡ
*teːɡ, *deːɡ
*deːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – an altar.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/teiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/teiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛjH/
Li
Rong
/teiH/
Wang
Li
/tieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˤek-s/
English God

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 # 1/1
No. 2313
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*teːɡs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. god; deity
  2. emperor; sovereign
  3. Short for 帝國主義帝国主义 (dìguó zhǔyì, “imperialism”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sovereign

Readings

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana みかど, romaji mikado)

  1. mikado (emperor of Japan)
  2. emperor

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(je)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (McCune-Reischauer: che)
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Vietnamese

Han character

(đế, đấy, đê, để, đí, đó)

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