敵

See also: 敌

Translingual

Han character

敵 (radical 66 攴+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜月人大 (YBOK), four-corner 0824₀, composition ⿰啇攵)

1. enemy, foe, rival
2. resist

References

• KangXi: page 474, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13354
• Dae Jaweon: page 828, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1475, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6575

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Chinese

trad.		敵
simp.		敌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí (di²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): te̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik⁶
    • Yale: dihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /dek̚/▼

Rime
Character	敵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/dek̚/
Wang Li	/diek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]ˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*deːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	敵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dí
Middle Chinese	‹ dek ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˤek/
English	oppose; enemy
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	敵
Reading #	1/1
No.	2340
Phonetic component	帝
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	荻
Old Chinese	/*deːɡ/

Definitions

敵

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Derived terms

• 敵人／敌人 (dírén)
• 無敵／无敌 (wúdí)

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Japanese

Kanji

敵

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じゃく (jaku)
• Kan’on: てき (teki)
• Kun: かたき (kataki), あだ (ada)

Noun

敵 ‎(hiragana かたき, romaji kataki)

1. an enemy
2. rival

Alternative forms

• 仇

敵 ‎(hiragana てき, romaji teki)

1. an enemy
2. an opponent; a competitor

Compounds

• 敵対

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

敵 (địch)

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