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砥

砥

Translingual

Han character

砥 (radical 112 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口竹心一 (MRHPM) or 一口竹女戈 (MRHVI), four-corner 12640)

  1. a whetstone
  2. to polish

References

  • KangXi: page 828, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24093
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1243, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2424, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7825

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 砥

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 砥 砥 砥
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 章 (23) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 脂 (15) 支 (11) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III Chongniu III
Fanqie 旨夷切 諸氏切 職雉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiɪ/ /t͡ɕiᴇX/ /t͡ɕˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕi/ /t͡ɕiɛX/ /t͡ɕᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɪ/ /t͡ɕjɛX/ /t͡ɕiɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ci/ /ciə̆X/ /cjiX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕi/ /t͡ɕieX/ /t͡ɕjiX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕi/ /t͡ɕǐeX/ /t͡ɕiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi/ /t͡ɕie̯X/ /t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhī zhǐ zhǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 砥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tijʔ/
English whetstone

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 砥 砥 砥 砥
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 2258 2271 2273 2275
Phonetic
component		 氐 氐 氐 氐
Rime
group		 歌 脂 脂 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 紙 脂 旨 至
Old
Chinese		 /*tjelʔ/ /*tjil/ /*tjilʔ/ /*tjils/

Definitions

砥

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Compounds

  • 中流砥柱
  • 砥兵礪伍／砥兵砺伍
  • 砥名勵節／砥名励节
  • 砥平繩直／砥平绳直
  • 砥志礪行／砥志砺行
  • 砥據／砥据
  • 砥柱
  • 砥柱中流
  • 砥礪／砥砺
  • 砥礪名節／砥砺名节
  • 砥礪名號／砥砺名号
  • 砥礪名行／砥砺名行
  • 砥礪廉隅／砥砺廉隅
  • 砥礪清節／砥砺清节
  • 砥礪風節／砥砺风节
  • 砥節奉公／砥节奉公
  • 砥節守公／砥节守公
  • 砥節礪行／砥节砺行
  • 砥行磨名
  • 砥行立名
  • 磨礱砥礪／磨砻砥砺

References

Japanese

Kanji

砥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

砥 • ‎(ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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