笛

Translingual

Han character

笛 (radical 118 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹中田 (HLW), four-corner 8860₃, composition ⿰竹由)

1. flute
2. whistle

References

• KangXi: page 879, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25917
• Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2955, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7B1B

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Cantonese

笛(dek 2/ dek 6)

Hanzi

笛 (Yale dek6)

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Japanese

Kanji

笛 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ちゃく (chaku)
• Kan’on: てき (teki)
• Kun: ふえ (fue)

Etymology

Likely related to the verb 吹く (fuku, “to blow”).

Noun

笛 (hiragana ふえ, romaji fue)

1. (music) a flute, a whistle, a pipe

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Korean

Hanja

笛 (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

笛 (pinyin dí (di2), Wade-Giles ti²)

Compounds

• 笛子
• 海笛

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Middle Chinese

Han character

笛 (*dhek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

笛 (địch, sáo)