底

See also: 厎

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

底 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹心一 (IHPM) or 戈竹女戈 (IHVI), four-corner 0024₂, composition ⿸广氐)

Derived characters

• 掋, 鯳, 菧

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 344, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9262
• Dae Jaweon: page 653, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 878, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E95

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Chinese

trad.		底
simp. #		底

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (氐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
低	*tiːl
氐	*tiːl, *til
袛	*tiːl
羝	*tiːl
眡	*tiːl, *djilʔ
岻	*tiːl, *dil
奃	*tiːl
趆	*tiːl, *tiːls
柢	*tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls
邸	*tiːlʔ
底	*tiːlʔ
詆	*tiːlʔ, *diːl
坻	*tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil
抵	*tiːlʔ
牴	*tiːlʔ
觝	*tiːlʔ
弤	*tiːlʔ
軧	*tiːlʔ
骶	*tiːls
砥	*tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils
胝	*til
疷	*til
秪	*til
泜	*dil
蚳	*dil
彽	*dil
阺	*dil
貾	*dil
祗	*tjil
厎	*tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ
茋	*tjilʔ
鴟	*tʰjil
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tiːlʔ) : semantic 广 (“building”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til) – the bottom or base, foundation of a building. Note that 氐 is a figure bowing or stooping, hence connotation of “down”.

Etymology 1

Cognate with 低 (OC *tiːl, “to lower; low”), 柢 (OC *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls, “root of a tree; base”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 底

1. bottom; underneath; underside
2. ground; background
3. ins and outs; actual situation
4. master copy
5. end (of a year or month)

   See also: 年底, 月底

   六月底 [Cantonese]  ―  luk⁶ jyut⁶ dai² [Jyutping]  ―  end of June

6. remnants; remains; leftovers
7. (Southern Min) inside
8. (mathematics) base (of triangle, logarithm, etc.)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): de (de⁵／de⁰)

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄉㄜ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: de
    • Zhuyin: ˙ㄉㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: de̊
    • Wade–Giles: tê⁵
    • Yale: de
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .de
    • Palladius: дэ (dɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d̥ə/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 底

1. ^† possessive particle, equivalent to modern Mandarin 的 (de)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Eastern Min (BUC): diē / dē̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tī / tǐ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): di⁷

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• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: diē / dē̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tie³³/, /tœ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī
    • Tâi-lô: tī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: di
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ti³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ti²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐ
    • Tâi-lô: tǐ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ti²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: di⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti¹¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 底

1. (Min) which; what

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 哪 (“which”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何, 孰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		哪
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	哪
	Taiwan	哪
	Malaysia	哪
	Singapore	哪
Cantonese	Guangzhou	邊
	Hong Kong	邊
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	選
	Taishan	哪
	Yangjiang	邊
	Singapore (Guangfu)	邊
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	哪
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	哪
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	哪
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	哪
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	哪
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	哪
	Hong Kong	哪
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	底
	Fuqing	底
Southern Min	Xiamen	佗
	Quanzhou	佗
	Zhangzhou	佗
	Taipei	佗
	Kaohsiung	佗
	Singapore (Hokkien)	佗
	Chaozhou	底
	Singapore (Teochew)	底
	Haikou	底
	Singapore (Hainanese)	底
Wu	Shanghai	阿裡, 賴裡
	Wenzhou	若, 狃

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

底

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai)
• Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
• Kun: そこ (soko, 底, Jōyō); なんぞ (nanzo)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
底
そこ Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Noun

底(そこ) • (soko) 

1. the bottom

   底(そこ)に沈(しず)む

   soko ni shizumu

   sink to the bottom

Derived terms

• 二(に)重(じゅう)底(ぞこ) (nijūzoko, “double sole; double bottom”)

Antonyms

• 頂(いただき) (itadaki, “top”)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
底
てい Grade: 4
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 底 (tej^X).

Noun

底(てい) • (tei) 

1. base of a logarithm

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Korean

Hanja

底 • (jeo, ji) (hangeul 저, 지, revised jeo, ji, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

底: Hán Nôm readings: để, đáy, đé, đẽ, đây

1. to place