胎

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胎 U+80CE, 胎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80CE
← 胍
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 胏 →

Translingual

Han character

胎 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月戈口 (BIR), four-corner 73260, composition ⿰⺼台)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 978, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29369
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1429, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2065, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+80CE

Chinese

trad. 胎
simp. # 胎
alternative forms 孡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (台) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
胎 *l̥ʰɯː
台 *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
邰 *l̥ʰɯː
鮐 *l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
孡 *l̥ʰɯː
苔 *l'ɯː
抬 *l'ɯː
駘 *l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
炱 *l'ɯː
菭 *l'ɯː, *l'i
跆 *l'ɯː
殆 *l'ɯːʔ
怠 *l'ɯːʔ
迨 *l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
詒 *l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
軩 *l'ɯːʔ
咍 *hlɯː
佁 *lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
枲 *slɯʔ
辝 *ljɯ
鈶 *ljɯʔ
笞 *l̥ʰɯ
齝 *l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
眙 *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
治 *l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
始 *hljɯʔ
怡 *lɯ
貽 *lɯ
飴 *lɯ
瓵 *lɯ
珆 *li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l̥ʰɯː) : semantic ⺼ + phonetic 台 (OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tái - literary;
  • tó - vernacular.
Note:
  • tăi - literary;
  • tŏi - vernacular.
Note:
  • the/ther - vernacular;
  • thai - literary.
Rime
Character 胎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 土來切
Baxter thoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰəj/
Li
Rong 		/tʰᴀi/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɒi/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tāi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		toi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 胎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tāi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ thoj ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ˁə/
English fetus

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 胎
Reading # 1/1
No. 12259
Phonetic
component 		台
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		胎
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰɯː/

Definitions

胎

  1. fetus; unborn child
  2. source, origin
  3. to bring up, to rear
  4. pearl in shell
  5. roughcast
  6. padding
  7. tongue coating; fur
    alt. forms: 苔
  8. to escape
  9. Alternative form of 鮐 / 鲐

Compounds

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tire.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • thai - literary;
  • ther/the - vernacular.

    Definitions

    胎

    1. pneumatic tire

    Synonyms

    • (Cantonese) 呔 (taai1)

    Compounds

    Japanese

    Kanji

    胎

    (Jōyō kanji)

    1. uterus

    Readings

    • Go-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
    • Kan-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
    • Kun: はらむ (haramu, 胎む)

    Compounds

    Etymology

    Kanji in this term
    胎
    たい
    Grade: S
    on'yomi

    From Middle Chinese 胎 (thoj).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    胎(たい) • (tai) 

    1. womb

    References

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

    Korean

    Etymology

    From Middle Chinese 胎 (MC thoj).

    Hanja

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    胎 (eumhun 아이 밸 태 (ai bael tae))

    1. hanja form? of 태 (“uterus”)

    Compounds

    References

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    胎: Hán Nôm readings: thai

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