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Translingual

Han character

(radical 94 +16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 大竹木中金 (KHDLC), four-corner 47286)

  1. otter

References

  • KangXi: page 721, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20782
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1133, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1377, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+737A

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*raːds
*raːds
*raːds, *raːd
*raːds
*raːds
*raːds, *reːdʔ, *raːd
*raːnʔ
*raːnʔ
*r̥ʰaːd, *hr'aːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (6) (10)
Final () (63) (71)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰɑt̚/ /ʈʰˠat̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰɑt̚/ /ʈʰᵚat̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɑt̚/ /ȶʰɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰat̚/ /ʈʰaɨt̚/
Li
Rong
/tʰɑt̚/ /ȶʰat̚/
Wang
Li
/tʰɑt̚/ /ȶʰat̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑt̚/ /ȶʰăt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ta cha
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ that › ‹ trhæt ›
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ˤat/ /*[m-r̥]ˤat/
English otter otter

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 7640 7643
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ʰaːd/ /*hr'aːd/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 獺祭獭祭
  • 獺祭魚獭祭鱼

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. otter

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
おそ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
うそ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana うそ, romaji uso) (alternative reading hiragana おそ, romaji oso, historical hiragana をそ)

  1. an otter

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
かわおそ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
かわうそ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

(kawa, river) + (uso, otter)

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana かわうそ, katakana カワウソ, romaji kawauso, historical hiragana かはうそ)
(alternative reading hiragana かわおそ, katakana カワオソ, romaji kawaoso, historical hiragana かはをそ)

  1. Alternative spelling of 川獺 (otter)

Korean

Hanja

(dal, chal) (hangeul , 찰, revised dal, chal, McCune-Reischauer tal, ch'al, Yale tal, chal)

  1. (수달 달, sudal-): otter

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(thát, rái)

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