底

See also 厎

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 广 (“building”) + phonetic 氐 – the bottom or base, foundation of a building. Note that 氐 is a figure bowing or stooping, hence connotation of “down”.

Han character

底 (radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹心一 (IHPM), 戈竹女戈 (IHVI), four-corner 0024₂, composition ⿸广氐)

1. bottom, underneath, underside

References

• KangXi: page 344, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9262
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 878, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E95

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Cantonese

Hanzi

底 (jyutping dai2, Yale dai2)

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Japanese

Kanji

底 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: てい (tei)
• Kun: そこ (soko), なんぞ (nanzo)

• Synonym
  • 下 (した, shita)

Etymology 1

Noun

底 (hiragana そこ, romaji soko)

1. the bottom

Etymology 2

Noun

底 (hiragana てい, romaji tei)

1. base of a logarithm

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Korean

Hanja

底 (hangeul 저, 지, revised jeo, ji, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, chi)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

底 (pinyin de (de5), dǐ (di3), Wade-Giles te⁵, ti³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

底 (để, đáy, đé, đẽ, đây)