替

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

替 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手人日 (QOA), four-corner 5560₃, composition ⿱㚘曰)

Derived characters

• 僣, 譛, 鐟, 䲋, 䣠, 簮, 𠟆, 𠾱, 𡼫, 𢡚, 𣚽, 𤏖, 𥋋, 𦅦, 𦏋, 𦠛, 𦻘, 𨅕, 𩁀, 𩅮, 𩕗, 𩞲, 𪍲, 𪖽, 𱈻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 503, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14300
• Dae Jaweon: page 877, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1515, character 8
• Unihan data for U+66FF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 替
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 竝 + 曰 – two figures (竝) changing places. Two top components have been simplified from 立 to 夫.

Pronunciation

Definitions

替

1. to substitute for; to displace (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. for; in place of

   他替我去了趟超市。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā tì wǒ qù le tàng chāoshì.

   He went to the supermarket for me.

   需要我替您聯繫工程師嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   需要我替您联系工程师吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Xūyào wǒ tì nín liánxì gōngchéngshī ma?

   Do you need me to contact an engineer for you?

   • 奴才替天下百姓感激皇太后恩典！ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 2010, The Firmament of the Pleiades

     Núcái tì tiānxià bǎixìng gǎnjī huángtàihòu ēndiǎn!

     I, on behalf of the people throughout the world, express my gratitude for the kindness of the empress dowager!

3. to decline; to go downhill; to be on the wane; to fall; to decay

   • 曰：「有謂一向嚴華夷之防閑，守儒俗之界分，則勢孤力替。尊慕之義無以維持。則不問俗之華夷、人之舊新，破其畦稜，而與之成其事，亦時宜之一道也。其言如何？」 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 1946, writing by ​Kim Yeong'ik (金永益)

     Wal: "Yu wi ilhyang eom hwai ji banghan, su yu sok ji gyebun, jeuk se go ryeok che. Jonmo ji ui mu i yuji. Jeuk bulmun sok ji hwai, in ji gusin, pa gi hyu reung, i yeo ji seong gi sa, yeok siui ji il do ya. Gi eon yeoha?" [Sino-Korean]

     He said: "There are those who say that if we always hold firm to the limits of the hua and the yi and keep to the borders between the Confucian and profane worlds, our circumstances shall be forlorn and our strength faltering. The cause of honoring and commemorating is not upheld thereby. So if we disregard whether the customs are hua or yi or whether the people are of the old or new types, breaking these boundaries and achieving our aim along with them, this would also be a way to act appropriately for these times. What do you have to say?"

Synonyms

• (to substitute):

• (for):

• (to decline):

Compounds

References

• “替”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. exchange, replace
2. spare, substitute

Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: てい (tei)
• Kun: かえる (kaeru, 替える, Jōyō)^{←かへる (kaferu, 替へる, historical)}; かわる (kawaru, 替わる, Jōyō)^{←かはる (kafaru, 替はる, historical)}; すたれる (sutareru, 替れる)

Korean

Hanja

替 (eumhun 바꿀 체 (bakkul che))

1. Hanja form^? of 체 (“to change; switch”).

Vietnamese

Han character

替: Hán Nôm readings: thế

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