Stroke order

池 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水心木 (EPD), four-corner 3411₂, composition ⿰氵也)

• 𠲨, 𨦥, 𪢏, 𩶴, 𫇻, 筂, 𦈳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 606, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17141
• Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1555, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C60

Historical forms of the character 池
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'aːl, *l'al): semantic 氵 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Perhaps a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *lii (“pool; lake; pond”), whence Mizo li (“quiet, deep pool”) (STEDT).

池

1. pool; pond
2. moat
3. cistern
4. (computing) pool
5. a surname

• (pond):

• (moat):

池

1. only used in 虖池／呼池 (“Hutuo River”)

• “池”, 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–

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pond, lake, moat
   • 1686, Matsuo Bashō, Haru no Hi:

     古池(ふるいけ)や蛙飛(かわずと)び込(こ)む水(みず)の音(おと)

     furuike ya kawazu tobi-komu mizu no oto

     The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. object used for storage

• Go-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}、だ (da)
• Kan-on: ち (chi, Jōyō)、た (ta)
• Kun: いけ (ike, 池, Jōyō)

/tʲie/ → /ti/ → /t͡ɕi/

From Middle Chinese 池 (MC drje).

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ti⟩ in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).

• IPA^(key):

池(ち) • (Chi) 

1. a surname

池 (eumhun 연못 지 (yeonmot ji))

1. pool, pond

池 (eumhun 이름 타 (ireum ta))

1. a surname

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: いち (ichi, 池)

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as いち.

From Proto-Japonic *ikay, cognate with Japanese 池(いけ) (ike).

池(いち) (ichi) 

1. pond

池: Hán Nôm readings: trì, đìa

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