氐

Translingual

Han character

氐 (Kangxi radical 83, 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹心一 (HPM) or 竹女心戈 (HVPI), four-corner 7274₀, composition ⿱氏丶(G) or ⿱氏一(HTJK))

Usage notes

As a component of complex characters, may have sense of “down, low” from the bowing, stooping figure, as in 低 and 底; compare more abstract 下.

Derived characters

• 低, 呧, 坻, 𡛜, 岻, 弤, 彽, 怟, 抵, 泜, 𤝬, 阺, 㫝, 柢, 牴, 𭹁, 胝, 𣱊, 𭽣, 眡, 砥, 祗, 秪, 袛, 𥿄, 羝, 𦐠, 𦕑, 䑛, 𦨢, 蚳, 觝, 詆(诋), 貾(𰷢), 䟡, 軧(𰺀), 𨠏, 𬫌, 𭯱, 䩚, 䬫(𬲮), 骶, 𩶅, 𪀍
• 䢑, 趆, 𬇉, 邸, 𢺾, 㪆, 𤬵, 㲳, 𣱎, 𧠟, 𨾦, 𩑾, 𣱐, 鴟(鸱), 𣱑, 𣱒, 奃, 茋, 䍕, 𣱓, 厎, 底, 疷, 𤇡, 𣱋, 𧐏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 597, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17027
• Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2130, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C10

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 氐 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Di (Five Barbarians) (English)

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 氐宿 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Root (Chinese constellation) (English)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 氐
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : 氏 (“(bowing figure)”) + 一 – as with 氏, but with an empty circle (then a line, today either a line or a point) underneath: a bowing figure standing on the ground or depicted while lifting something from the ground.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

氐

1. Di (ethnic group)
2. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Root (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
3. ^† Original form of 低 (dī, “to lower; to bow”).
4. ^† Original form of 低 (dī, “cheap; inexpensive”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

氐

1. (literary) Original form of 柢 (dǐ, “root of a tree”).
2. (literary) Original form of 柢 (dǐ, “basis; fundamental”).
3. (literary) Original form of 抵 (dǐ, “to reach; to arrive”).
4. (literary) Original form of 抵 (dǐ, “to match; to be equal to”).

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

氐

1. Only used in 氐池 (“an ancient county”).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02110
• “氐”, 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

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Di (ancient ethnic group in western China)

Readings

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From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC tej, “Di; Root mansion”):

• Go-on: だい (dai)
• Kan-on: たい (tai); てい (tei)

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC trij, “basis, fundamental”):

• Go-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kun: ふもと (fumoto, 氐)

Compounds

• 氐宿(ともぼし) (Tomoboshi)

Etymology

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

テイ宿

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Root (Chinese constellation)

Wikipedia

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

テイ (民族)

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Di (Five Barbarians)

Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC tej), compare modern Mandarin 氐 (dī).

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨te⟩.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) て​ー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Proper noun

氐(てい) • (Tei) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Root, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions

   Synonyms: 氐宿 (Teishū, Tei-shuku), とも星 (Tomoboshi)

2. (historical) Di: an ancient ethnic group in western China

   Hypernym: 五胡 (Goko)

See also

• てんびん座(ざ) (Tenbin-za, “Libra”)

References

Korean

Hanja

氐 (eum 저 (jeo))

1. foundation; basis; origin

Vietnamese

Han character

氐: Hán Nôm readings: đê

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References

• Nom Foundation