Translingual

Han character

疊 (radical 102 田+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 田田田一 (WWWM), four-corner 6010₇, composition ⿱畾冝)

Descendants

• 畳, 叠

References

• KangXi: page 767, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21983
• Dae Jaweon: page 1177, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2555, character 14
• Unihan data for U+758A

Chinese

Glyph origin

畾 + 宜 – a pile.

Originally as 曡, with 晶 (jīng) on top. Shuowen commented that the shape change was promoted by emperor of the short-lived Xin Dynasty, who deemed the use of three "suns" (日) in this character too empowering - compared to three "fields" (田).

Etymology

Cognate with 褶 (“lined dress”), Tibetan ལྟབ་པ ‎(ltab pa, “to fold, gather up, to lay or put together”), ལྡེབ་པ ‎(ldeb pa, “to bend round or back, to turn round, to double down”), ལྡབ་པ ‎(ldab pa, “to fold up, repeat, do again”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

疊

1. to fold; to fold up
2. to fold over in layers; to pile up; to be piled up
3. pile
4. layer
5. to repeat, to duplicate
6. to be repetitious

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: じょう (jō), ちょう (chō)
• Kun: たたむ (tatamu), たたみ (tatami), かさねる (kasaneru)

Noun

疊 ‎(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 畳, hiragana たたみ, romaji tatami)

1. tatami

Korean

Hanja

疊 • ‎(cheop) (hangeul 첩, revised cheop, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏp, Yale chep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疊 (điệp, đệp, xếp)

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