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Translingual

Han character

(radical 66 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人大 (YBOK), four-corner 08240, composition)

  1. enemy, foe, rival
  2. resist

References

  • KangXi: page 474, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13354
  • Dae Jaweon: page 828, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1475, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6575

Chinese

trad.
simp.

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/dek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/dek̚/
Wang
Li
/diek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ dek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ˤek/
English oppose; enemy

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. 2340
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*deːɡ/

Definitions

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Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana かたき, romaji kataki)

  1. an enemy
  2. rival

Alternative forms

(hiragana てき, romaji teki)

  1. an enemy
  2. an opponent; a competitor

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(jeok) (hangeul , revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(địch)

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