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Translingual

Stroke order
5 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人戈心 (OIP), four-corner 23240, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 93, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 386
  • Dae Jaweon: page 197, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 113, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+4EE3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • (Cantonese)
  • (Classical)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *l'ɯːɡs) : semantic (person) + phonetic (OC *lɯɡ)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation


Note:
  • dô̤i - vernacular;
  • dâi - literary.
Note:
  • tē/tēr - vernacular;
  • tāi - literary;
  • tài - literary (limited, e.g. 交代 (jiāodài)).
Note:
  • do7 - vernacular ("generation / dynasty / period");
  • dai3 - literary (in 交代);
  • toi3 - semantic ("to act for/as").

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /tai⁵¹/
Harbin /tai⁵³/
Tianjin /tai⁵³/
Jinan /tɛ²¹/
Qingdao /tɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tai³¹²/
Xi'an /tai⁴⁴/
Xining /tɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /tɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /tɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /tai²¹³/
Wuhan /tai³⁵/
Chengdu /tai¹³/
Guiyang /tai²¹³/
Kunming /tæ²¹²/
Nanjing /tae⁴⁴/
Hefei /te̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /tai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tæ³⁵/
Hohhot /tɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /de²³/
Suzhou /de̞³¹/
Hangzhou /de̞¹³/
Wenzhou /de²²/
Hui Shexian /tʰɛ²²/
Tunxi /tə¹¹/
/ta⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /tai⁵⁵/
/tai¹¹/
Xiangtan /tai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /tʰai²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰoi⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰoi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tɔi²²/
Nanning /tɔi²²/
Hong Kong /tɔi²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tai²²/
/te²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɔy²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /to⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰoi²¹³/
/to³¹/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdai³⁵/
/ʔdai³³/
/ʔde²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter dojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/dəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəjH/
Li
Rong
/dᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/dɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
doi6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dài
Middle
Chinese
‹ dojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁək-s/
English replace

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 14963
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage)

  1. to replace; to take the place of
  2. to act for; to do something on behalf of
  3. to act as; to be the acting (president etc.)
  4. generation; age group
  5. historical period; era
  6. date; age
  7. dynasty; line of rulers
  8. (geology) era
  9. (grammar) Short for 代名詞代名词 (dàimíngcí); short for 代詞代词 (dàicí, “pronoun”).
  10. (historical geography) Short for 代國代国 (Dàiguó, “state of Dai”).
  11. a surname

Compounds

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Etymology 2

From (OC *zrɯs).

Pronunciation


Definitions

(deprecated template usage)

  1. (Southern Min) affair; matter

Compounds

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Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to wear something on the head; to carry on the head; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

(deprecated template usage)


Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
しろ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

(しろ) (shiro

  1. (archaic) substitution
  2. (archaic) price, cost, charge
  3. (historical) shiro, a unit of land

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

() (yo

  1. world, society
  2. (archaic) age, generation, era of rule
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC dojH).

Pronunciation

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Noun

(だい) (dai

  1. price
  2. generation of a family
  3. reign of a royal
  4. decade
  5. era

Counter

(だい) or (counter) (dai or counter[[Category:Japanese Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: Invalid part of speech.
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  1. generation of a royal family
  2. era, age, decade

Suffix

(だい) or (suffix) (dai or suffix[[Category:Japanese Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: Invalid part of speech.
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  1. charge, fare, rate, fee, price, rent
  2. (indicating years spanning a specific period) -ies, -hundreds
Alternative forms
  • (period of time):

Korean

Hanja

(eum (dae))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: đại ((đạc)(nại)(thiết))[1][2][3]
: Nôm readings: đời[1][2][3][4][5], đãi[1][2][3], đại[1][2][5], dạy[1][2], dậy[1][2], rượi[3][4], đười[1], đợi[1]

  1. Template:han tu form of
  2. Template:Nom form of

Compounds

References