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慝

慝

Translingual

Han character

慝 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口心 (SRP), four-corner 7133₁, composition ⿱匿心)

do evil in secret
evil, vice

References

KangXi: page 399, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11100

Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2333, character 1

Unihan data for U+615D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		慝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (匿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
暱	*niɡ
慝	*n̥ʰɯːɡ
匿	*nɯɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): tè (te⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tik¹, nik¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: tè
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ
  - Wade-Giles: t'ê⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teh
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tik¹, nik¹
  - Yale: tīk, nīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tik⁷, nik⁷
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: /tʰək̚/▼

Rime
Character	慝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	德 (131)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	他德切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰək̚/
Li Rong	/tʰək̚/
Wang Li	/tʰək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	te

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*n̥ˤək/

(Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰɯːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tè
Middle Chinese	‹ thok ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥ˤək/
English	evil
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	慝
Reading #	1/1
No.	9480
Phonetic component	匿
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	忒
Old Chinese	/*n̥ʰɯːɡ/

Definitions

慝

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Compounds

奸慝
姦慝／奸慝
引慝

淑慝殊途
淫心慝行
苛慝

讒慝／谗慝
隱慝／隐慝

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

慝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: とく (toku)

Kun: わるい (warui)

Korean

Hanja

慝 • ‎(teuk) (hangeul 특, revised teuk, McCune-Reischauer t'ŭk, Yale thuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: nấc, nức, thắc

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References

Nom Foundation