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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈口心 (IRP) or X戈口心 (XIRP), four-corner 23336, composition)

  1. idle, remiss, negligent
  2. neglect

References

  • KangXi: page 381, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10469
  • Dae Jaweon: page 709, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2283, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6020

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰɯː
*l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
*l̥ʰɯː
*l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
*l̥ʰɯː
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː, *l'i
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
*l'ɯːʔ
*hlɯː
*lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
*slɯʔ
*ljɯ
*ljɯʔ
*l̥ʰɯ
*l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
*l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
*l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
*hljɯʔ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ɯːʔ) : phonetic  (OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəjX/
Li
Rong
/dᴀiX/
Wang
Li
/dɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dài
Middle
Chinese
‹ dojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˤəʔ/
English idle, negligent

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. 12273
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯːʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 倦怠 (juàndài)
  • 倨傲怠慢
  • 孜孜不怠
  • 怠倦
  • 怠工 (dàigōng)
  • 怠廢怠废
  • 怠忽
  • 怠忽職守怠忽职守
  • 怠息
  • 怠惰 (dàiduò)
  • 怠慢 (dàimàn)
  • 怠散
  • 怠玩
  • 怠緩怠缓
  • 怠駛怠驶
  • 意怠
  • 懈怠 (xièdài)
  • 懶怠懒怠
  • 荒怠
  • 豫怠
  • 輕怠轻怠

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. neglect
  2. laziness

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(tae) (hangeul , revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

  1. lazy
  2. neglect

Vietnamese

Han character

(đãi)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References