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胎

胎

Translingual

Han character

胎 (radical 130 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月戈口 (BIR), four-corner 73260, composition ⿰月台)

References

  • KangXi: page 978, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29369
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1429, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2065, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+80CE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 胎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (台) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
胎 *l̥ʰɯː
台 *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
邰 *l̥ʰɯː
鮐 *l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
孡 *l̥ʰɯː
苔 *l'ɯː
抬 *l'ɯː
駘 *l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
炱 *l'ɯː
菭 *l'ɯː, *l'i
跆 *l'ɯː
殆 *l'ɯːʔ
怠 *l'ɯːʔ
迨 *l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
詒 *l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
軩 *l'ɯːʔ
咍 *hlɯː
佁 *lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
枲 *slɯʔ
辝 *ljɯ
鈶 *ljɯʔ
笞 *l̥ʰɯ
齝 *l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
眙 *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
治 *l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
始 *hljɯʔ
怡 *lɯ
貽 *lɯ
飴 *lɯ
瓵 *lɯ
珆 *li

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 胎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土來切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰəj/
Li
Rong		 /tʰᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tāi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 胎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tāi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤə/
English fetus

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 胎
Reading # 1/1
No. 12259
Phonetic
component		 台
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 胎
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰɯː/

Noun

胎

  1. fetus; unborn child

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

胎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
胎
たい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 胎 ‎(thoj).

Pronunciation

Noun

胎 ‎(hiragana たい, romaji tai)

  1. womb

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

胎 • ‎(tae) (hangeul 태, revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

胎 (thai)

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