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Translingual

Han character

(radical 188 +13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 月月廿田廿 (BBTWT), four-corner 75218, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1451, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45291
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1978, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4419, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9AD4

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*r̥ʰiːʔ
*r̥ʰiːʔ
*riːʔ
*riːʔ
*riːʔ
*riːʔ
*riːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *r̥ʰiːʔ) : semantic  (bone) + phonetic  (OC *riːʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰeiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰeiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛjX/
Li
Rong
/tʰeiX/
Wang
Li
/tʰieiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ thejX ›
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ˤijʔ/
English body; limbs

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 # 1/1
No. 7837
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*r̥ʰiːʔ/

Definitions

  1. body
    /    shēn   body
  2. part of the body
    /    zhī   limb
  3. state of a substance
    /       solid state
  4. whole entity
    /       object
  5. form; structure
    /    zhì   system of organization
  6. (literature) style; form; genre; structure
    /    wén   literary form
  7. style of calligraphy
    /       clerical script
  8. typeface
    /    sòng   Song typeface
  9. three-dimensional object
    正方 / 正方   zhèngfāng   cube
  10. principle
    中學西學 [MSC, trad.]
    中学西学 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhōngxué wéi , xīxué wéi yòng [Pinyin]
    Chinese traditional learning as the fundamental structure, Western learning for practical use
  11. (mainland China, grammar) aspect of a verb
    進行 / 进行   jìnxíng   progressive aspect
  12. to do or experience personally
    力行 / 力行   shēnlìxíng   to practise what one advocates
    /    yàn   to learn through experience
  13. to put oneself in someone else's position
    /       to understand and sympathize with
  14. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. body

Readings

Usage notes

This is the kyūjitai (old form) of . Very rarely used.


Korean

Hanja

(che) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer ch'e, Yale chey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thể)

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