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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日人一月金 (AOMBC), four-corner 61808, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1406, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43584
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1924, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4381, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+984C

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*teː
*teː, *deː
*teː, *teːʔ, *dje
*teː
*teːs, *deː
*tʰeːʔ, *deː
*tʰeːʔ, *deː
*deː, *dje
*deː
*deː, *deːs
*deː, *deːʔ, *djeʔ
*deː, *deʔ, *djeʔ
*deː, *tje, *dje
*deː
*deː
*deː, *deːs, *djes
*deːs, *deʔ
*deʔ, *djeʔ
*dje
*djeʔ
*djeʔ
*hljes, *kles
*tʰeːns
*djɯɡ
*dɯɡ
*djɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *deː, *deːs) : phonetic  (OC *djeʔ) + semantic  (body part) – “forehead”.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (7) (7)
Final () (39) (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dei/ /deiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dei/ /deiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛi/ /dɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛj/ /dɛjH/
Li
Rong
/dei/ /deiH/
Wang
Li
/diei/ /dieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiei/ /dʱieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11623 11635
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*deː/ /*deːs/

Definitions

  1. forehead
  2. title
  3. question, quiz, problem
  4. Classifier for questions.  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  5. to sign; to write; to inscribe
  6. Alternative form of (, “to mention”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana だい, romaji dai)

  1. title
  2. theme
  3. problem

Counter

(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. questions on a test

Suffix

(hiragana だい, romaji -dai)

  1. question on a test

References

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

Korean

Hanja

(je) (hangeul , revised je, McCune-Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đề)

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