滴

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滴 U+6EF4, 滴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EF4
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Translingual

Han character

滴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水卜金月 (EYCB), four-corner 30127, composition ⿰氵啇)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18084
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1051, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1729, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6EF4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 滴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (帝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
膪 *rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
揥 *tʰeds, *teː
腣 *teː, *teːɡs
諦 *teːɡs
偙 *teːɡs
渧 *teːɡs
帝 *teːɡs
楴 *tʰeːɡs
啼 *deː
蹄 *deː
締 *deː, *deːɡs
崹 *deː
鶙 *deː
禘 *deːɡs
啻 *hljeɡs
嫡 *rteɡ, *teːɡ
摘 *rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
謫 *rteːɡ
讁 *rteːɡ
擿 *deɡ
蹢 *deɡ, *teːɡ
適 *tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇 *teːɡ
滴 *teːɡ
鏑 *teːɡ
甋 *teːɡ
樀 *teːɡ, *deːɡ
敵 *deːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *teːɡ): semantic 水 + phonetic 啻 (OC *hljeɡs).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tek (“to drip”), cognate to Tibetan ཐིག་པ (thig pa, “drop”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tih - vernacular (“to drip; to drip something into; drop of liquid; classifier; a little; trace left”);
  • tek - literary.
Rime
Character 滴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都歷切
Baxter tek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tek̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tek̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɛjk̚/
Li
Rong 		/tek̚/
Wang
Li 		/tiek̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		di
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dik1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 滴
Reading # 1/1
No. 2333
Phonetic
component 		帝
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		的
Old
Chinese 		/*teːɡ/

Definitions

滴

  1. to drip; to dribble
  2. to drip something into
    滴兩滴眼藥水
    滴两滴眼药水
    dik6 loeng5 dik6 ngaan5 joek6 seoi2
    to instill a few drops of eye drops
  3. drop of liquid
  4. Classifier for drops of liquid. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    兩滴水／两滴水  ―  liǎng dī shuǐ  ―  two drops of water
  5. (Hakka, Southern Min) a little
    一滴仔   ―  chi̍t tih á   ―  a little
    滴滴仔   ―  tih tih á   ―  a little bit
  6. (Mainland China Hokkien) trace left by a drop of liquid

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

滴

  1. (Cantonese, of ball) to bounce against a surface

Compounds

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

滴

  1. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 的2.
  2. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 地2.
  3. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 得 (“Used after a verb or an adjective and before a complement”).

References

Japanese

Kanji

滴

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. drop

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
滴
しずく
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
雫

Pronunciation

Noun

滴(しずく) • (shizuku) 

  1. drop (of water or other liquids)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

滴 • (jeok) (hangeul 적)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滴: Hán Nôm readings: nhích, nhếch, rích, tách, tích, trích

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