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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		翟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí, zhái (di², zhai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ, ㄓㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶, zaak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhái
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jair
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik⁶, zaak⁶
    • Yale: dihk, jaahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹, dzaak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/, /t͡sɑːk̚²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (翟, reconstructed)
Character (翟), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 澄 (11) Final: 陌 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 瑒伯切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɖɣæk̚/	/ȡʱɐk̚/	/ȡɐk̚/	/ɖɯak̚/	/ɖaɨjk̚/	/ȡɐk̚/	/ȡak̚/
Character (翟), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 錫 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 徒歷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/dek̚/	/dʱiek̚/	/dek̚/	/dek̚/	/dɛjk̚/	/diek̚/	/dɛk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (翟, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
翟								dí								‹ dek ›								/*lˤewk/								pheasant
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
翟					2227					翟					鐸					0										/*r'aːwɢ/
翟					2231					翟					藥					2					荻					/*l'eːwɢ/					即表有長尾羽之雉

Definitions

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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Japanese

Kanji

翟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kind of pheasant

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. pheasant

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Vietnamese

Han character

翟 (địch)

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