氐

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 氏 (“(bowing figure)”) + 一 – as with 氏, but a line underneath: a bowing figure standing on the ground.

Han character

氐 (radical 83 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹心一 (HPM), 竹女心戈 (HVPI), four-corner 7274₀, composition ⿱氏一)

1. name of an ancient tribe

Usage notes

As a component of complex characters, may have sense of “down, low” from the bowing, stooping figure, as in 低 and 底; compare more abstract 下.

Derived characters

• 低 厎 底 抵 邸

References

• KangXi: page 597, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17027
• Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2130, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C10

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Cantonese

Hanzi

氐 (Yale dai1, dai2)

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Japanese

Kanji

氐

Readings

• On: てい (tei), たい (tai), し (shi), ち (chi)
• Kun: ふもと (fumoto)

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Korean

Hanja

氐 (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

氐 (pinyin dī (di1), dǐ (di3), zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles ti¹, ti³, chih¹)