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特
特
Translingual
Han character
特 (radical 93 牛+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土木戈 (HQGDI), four-corner 24541, composition ⿰牛寺)
References
- KangXi: page 700, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20013
- Dae Jaweon: page 1113, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1808, character 11
- Unihan data for U+7279
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
特 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (寺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 等 | *tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ |
| 待 | *dɯːʔ |
| 寺 | *ljɯs |
| 持 | *l'ɯ |
| 峙 | *dɯʔ |
| 痔 | *dɯʔ |
| 跱 | *dɯʔ |
| 歭 | *dɯʔ |
| 洔 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 畤 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ |
| 秲 | *dɯʔ, *djɯs |
| 庤 | *dɯʔ |
| 時 | *djɯ |
| 鰣 | *djɯ |
| 塒 | *djɯ |
| 蒔 | *djɯ, *djɯs |
| 榯 | *djɯ |
| 恃 | *djɯʔ |
| 侍 | *djɯs |
| 詩 | *hljɯ |
| 邿 | *hljɯ |
| 特 | *dɯːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *dɯːɡ) : semantic 牛 (“ox”) + phonetic 寺 (OC *ljɯs).
Etymology
Compare Thai ถึก (tʉ̀k, “young ox, male water buffalo”), Lao ເຖິກ (thœk, “male (of animal)”), Proto-Vietic *dək (“male”) > Vietnamese đực (“male (of animal); bull”).
Related to 犆 (OC *dɯɡ, “male animal”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): dak6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thi̍t
- Min Nan (POJ): te̍k / tia̍k
- Wu (Wiktionary): deq (T5)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ
- Wade-Giles: t'ê4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teh
- IPA (key): /tʰɤ⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dak6
- Yale: dahk
- Cantonese Pinyin: dak9
- IPA (key): /tɐk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi̍t
- Hakka Romanization System: tid
- Hagfa Pinyim: tid6
- IPA: /tʰit̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
- Tâi-lô: ti̍k
- Phofsit Daibuun: dek
- IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪk̚⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /tiɪk̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
- Tâi-lô: tia̍k
- Phofsit Daibuun: diak
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: deq (T5)
- IPA (key): /d̻əʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 特 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /tʰɤ⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /tʰɤ⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /tʰɤ⁵³/ | |
| Jinan |
/tʰə⁴²/ ～別 /tei⁴²/ ～為 |
|
| Qingdao |
/tʰə⁵⁵/ ～務 /te⁵⁵/ ～為 |
|
| Zhengzhou | /tʰɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /tʰei²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /tʰɨ²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan |
/tʰa¹³/ /tʰia¹³/ /tʰə¹³/ |
|
| Lanzhou | /tʰə¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /tʰɤ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /tʰɤ²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu |
/tʰe³¹/ /tʰie³¹/ |
|
| Guiyang | /tʰɛ²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /tʰə³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /tʰəʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /tʰɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /tʰaʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /tʰʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /tʰaʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /dəʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /dəʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /dəʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /de²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian |
/tʰe²²/ /tʰi²²/ |
| Tunxi | /tʰe¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /tʰə²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /tʰæ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tʰɛʔ²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tʰit̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʰit̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tɐk̚²/ |
| Nanning | /tɐk̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /tɐk̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /tik̚⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /tɛiʔ⁵/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /tʰɛ²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tek̚⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ʔdek̚³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 特 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒得切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dək̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/dək̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/dək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
dé |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 特 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
tè |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dok › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[d]ˤək/ |
| English | bull |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 特 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12055 |
| Phonetic component |
寺 |
| Rime group |
職 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
特 |
| Old Chinese |
/*dɯːɡ/ |
Definitions
特
- †(of animal, especially bull) male
- †ox; bull
- †alone; by oneself
- †single-handed; by oneself
- †only; just
- special; unique; distinguished
- specially; especially
- Short for 特務／特务 (tèwù, “special agent; spy”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 特
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Japanese
Kanji
特
- special
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
特 • (teuk)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 특 (revised: teuk, McCune-Reischauer: t'ŭk, Yale: thuk)
- Name (hangeul): 특별하다, 수컷 (revised: teukbyeolhada, sukeot, McCune-Reischauer: t'ŭkpyŏrhada, suk'ŏt, Yale: thukpyelhada, swukhes)
Compounds
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