貸

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See also: 贷, and 貨
貸 U+8CB8, 貸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CB8
← 買
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 貹 →

Translingual

Han character

貸 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人心月山金 (OPBUC) or 難人心月山 (XOPBU), four-corner 23806, composition ⿱代貝)

  1. lend
  2. borrow
  3. pardon

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1206, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36709
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1670, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3634, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8CB8

Chinese

trad. 貸
simp. 贷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 貸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (弋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
戴 *ʔl'ɯːɡs
襶 *tɯːɡs
貸 *l̥ʰɯːɡs
代 *l'ɯːɡs
袋 *l'ɯːɡs
岱 *l'ɯːɡs
黛 *l'ɯːɡs
玳 *l'ɯːɡs
帒 *l'ɯːɡs
甙 *l'ɯːɡs
酨 *l'ɯːs, *zlɯːs
試 *hljɯɡs
弒 *hljɯɡs
忒 *l̥ʰɯːɡ
貣 *l̥ʰɯːɡ, *l'ɯːɡ
鴏 *l'ɯːɡ
栻 *l̥ʰɯɡ, *hljɯɡ
侙 *l̥ʰɯɡ
恜 *l̥ʰɯɡ
式 *hljɯɡ
軾 *hljɯɡ
拭 *hljɯɡ
鉽 *hljɯɡ
烒 *hljɯɡ
弋 *lɯɡ
芅 *lɯɡ
黓 *lɯɡ
隿 *lɯɡ
杙 *lɯɡ
釴 *lɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰɯːɡs) : semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 代 (OC *l'ɯːɡs). The character originally conveyed the meaning of "to give" or "to bestow," and later came to be used with the meaning of "to lend."[1]

References

  1. ^ Digital Shinjigen 2017

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 貸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他代切
Baxter thojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tʰəjH/
Li
Rong 		/tʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li 		/tʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		toi3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 貸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ thojH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ˁək-s/
English borrow; lend

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 貸
Reading # 1/1
No. 14962
Phonetic
component 		弋
Rime
group 		代
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		貸
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰɯːɡs/
Notes 貣轉註

Definitions

貸

  1. to lend
  2. to borrow
  3. (law, banking, finance) loan
  4. (literary, or in compounds) to forgive; to pardon
  5. (literary, or in compounds) to evade; to shirk (responsibility)
Synonyms
  • (to lend): 借出 (jièchū)
  • (to lend): 借入 (jièrù)
  • (to forgive):
  • (to evade):
Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

貸

  1. Alternative form of 忒
  2. Alternative form of 貣／𰷞 (tè)
Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

貸

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to lend

Readings

  • Go-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
  • On: とく (toku)
  • Kun: かす (kasu, 貸す, Jōyō)

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

貸 (eumhun 빌릴 특 (billil teuk))
貸 (eumhun 빌릴 대 (billil dae))

  1. hanja form? of 특/대 (“lend”)
  2. hanja form? of 특/대 (“borrow”)
  3. hanja form? of 특/대 (“pardon”)

Vietnamese

Han character

貸: Hán Nôm readings: thải, thãi, thảy, thẩy

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