馬蹄

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See also: 马蹄

Chinese

Etymology 1

horse; surname hoof; pork shoulder
trad. (馬蹄)
simp. (马蹄)
alternative forms 馬蹏马蹄

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (7)
Final () (98) (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II IV
Fanqie
Baxter maeX dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠaX/ /dei/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚaX/ /dei/
Shao
Rongfen
/maX/ /dɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/maɨX/ /dɛj/
Li
Rong
/maX/ /dei/
Wang
Li
/maX/ /diei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/maX/ /dʱiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
maa5 tai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ X ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁraʔ/
English horse

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 8715 2316
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mraːʔ/ /*deː/
Notes

Noun

馬蹄

  1. horse hoof
  2. (archery) target
  3. inkstone in the shape of a horse hoof
  4. Short for 馬蹄金马蹄金 (mǎtíjīn).
  5. Alternative name for 沉香 (chénxiāng, “agarwood”).
  6. Alternative name for 蒓菜莼菜 (chúncài).
  7. a kind of shaobing
Derived terms

Proper noun

馬蹄

  1. a passage in Zhuangzi
See also

Etymology 2

horse; surname hoof; pork shoulder
trad. (馬蹄)
simp. (马蹄)
alternative forms 䔍蹄

Kra-Dai substrate word (Li, 2012). Compare Zhuang makdaez.

Pronunciation


Noun

馬蹄

  1. (chiefly Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Penang Hokkien) water chestnut
Synonyms
Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
てい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Noun

()(てい) (batei

  1. hoof of a horse, horse hooves
    • 1927, 佐藤紅緑, ああ玉杯に花うけて:
      こう(おも)うとたんにしずかに馬蹄(ばてい)(おと)がどこからとなくきこえる。
      Kō omō totan ni shizuka ni batei no oto ga doko kara to naku kikoeru.
      Just as I think that, I hear somewhere the faint sound of horse hooves.

Derived terms