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Chinese
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barbarians; name of a tribe
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surname; leather shoes
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| trad. (狄鞮)
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狄
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鞮
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| simp. #(狄鞮)
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狄
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鞮
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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狄
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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dí
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ dek ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*lˁek/
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| English
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(name of a northern tribe)
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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狄
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鞮
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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2206
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11612
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Phonetic
component
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狄
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是
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Rime
group
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錫
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支
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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荻
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低
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Old
Chinese
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/*deːɡ/
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/*teː/
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Noun
狄鞮
- (historical) government official in charge of translating from and into the speech of non-Chinese ethnic groups in China's west (Di)
達其志，通其欲：東方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰譯。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
达其志，通其欲：东方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰译。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE
- Dá qí zhì, tōng qí yù: dōngfāng yuē jì, nánfāng yuē xiàng, xīfāng yuē dídī, běifāng yuē yì.
- To make what was in their minds apprehended, and to communicate their likings and desires, (there were officers) - in the east, called transmitters; in the south, representationists; in the west, Di-dis; and in the north, interpreters.
Synonyms
- 寄 (jì)
- 象 (xiàng)
- 譯／译 (yì)