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氐

氐

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (氐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
低 *tiːl
氐 *tiːl, *til
袛 *tiːl
羝 *tiːl
眡 *tiːl, *djilʔ
岻 *tiːl, *dil
奃 *tiːl
趆 *tiːl, *tiːls
柢 *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls
邸 *tiːlʔ
底 *tiːlʔ
詆 *tiːlʔ, *diːl
坻 *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil
抵 *tiːlʔ
牴 *tiːlʔ
觝 *tiːlʔ
弤 *tiːlʔ
軧 *tiːlʔ
骶 *tiːls
砥 *tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils
胝 *til
疷 *til
秪 *til
泜 *dil
蚳 *dil
彽 *dil
阺 *dil
貾 *dil
祗 *tjil
厎 *tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ
茋 *tjilʔ
鴟 *tʰjil
汦 *kjeʔ, *tjil

Pictogram (象形) : 氏 ‎(“(bowing figure)”) + 一 – as with 氏, but a line underneath: a bowing figure standing on the ground.

Han character

氐 (radical 83 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹心一 (HPM) or 竹女心戈 (HVPI), four-corner 72740, composition ⿱氏丶 or ⿱氏一)

  1. Di nationality in ancient China

Usage notes

As a component of complex characters, may have sense of “down, low” from the bowing, stooping figure, as in 低 and 底; compare more abstract 下.

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 597, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17027
  • Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2130, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6C10

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 氐

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 氐
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tɛj/
Li
Rong		 /tei/
Wang
Li		 /tiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 氐
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤij/
English Western tribes

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 氐
Reading # 1/2
No. 2235
Phonetic
component		 氐
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 低
Old
Chinese		 /*tiːl/

Definitions

氐

  1. Di (ethnic group)
  2. (astronomy) Root (Chinese constellation)
Compounds
  • 氐士貉
  • 氐宿
  • 氐族
  • 氐羌

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 氐
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tejX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤijʔ/
English bottom

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 氐
Reading # 2/2
No. 2262
Phonetic
component		 氐
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 胝
Old
Chinese		 /*til/

Definitions

氐

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Compounds
  • 根氐

References

Japanese

Kanji

氐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. name of an ancient tribe

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. the foundation, the basis, the origin

Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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