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U+557C, 啼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-557C

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口卜月月 (RYBB), four-corner 60027, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 197, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 659, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+557C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *deː) : semantic (mouth) + phonetic (OC *teːɡs).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • thài/tai2 - vernacular;
  • tì/ti2 - literary.
Note:
  • tiè - vernacular;
  • tà̤ - literary.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • thî - vernacular;
    • thê - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dei/
Pan
Wuyun
/dei/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛj/
Li
Rong
/dei/
Wang
Li
/diei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ dej ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.lˁe/
English weep, howl

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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. 2315
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*deː/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to cry loudly; to wail
      ―    ―  to cry loudly; to wail
    哭哭  ―  kūkū-  ―  to cry continuously
    笑皆非  ―  xiàojiēfēi  ―  to be so ridiculous that it is both saddening and provokes laughter at the same time
  2. (dialectal, by extension) to cry; to weep
  3. (of birds or beasts) to call; to cry; to howl
      ―  jiào  ―  to screech
      ―    ―  crows caw
  4. a surname

Synonyms

  • (to cry):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to cry, to call (e.g. as a bird does -- see 鳴く)

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đề

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