翟

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 羽 (“feather”) + 隹 (“bird”)

Han character

翟 (radical 124 羽+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一人土 (SMOG), four-corner 1721₄, composition ⿱羽隹)

1. A Chinese surname.
2. A long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes.
3. An alternative name for dí (狄).

Derived characters

• 濯, 䊮, 蠗, 嬥, 擢, 燿, 耀, 櫂, 𩱲, 躍, 趯, 藋, 曜

References

• KangXi: page 957, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3350, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7FDF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

翟 (Yale dik6, jaak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

翟

Readings

• On: けき (keki), じゃく (jaku), たく (taku)
• Kun: きじ (kiji)

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Korean

Hanja

翟 (hangeul 적, 책, revised jeok, chaek, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, ch'aek, Yale cek, chayk)

Noun

翟 (romanization needed)

1. An ancient flute used in court ritual music

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Mandarin

Hanzi

翟 (pinyin dí (di2), zhái (zhai2), Wade-Giles ti², chai²)

1. (zhái): A Chinese surname.
2. (dí): A long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes.
3. (dí): An alternative name for dí (狄).

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Vietnamese

Han character

翟 (địch)