滴

滴 U+6EF4, 滴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EF4 ← 滳 [U+6EF3] CJK Unified Ideographs 滵 → [U+6EF5]

Translingual

Han character

滴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 水卜金月 (EYCB), four-corner 3012₇, composition ⿰氵啇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18084
• Dae Jaweon: page 1051, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1729, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6EF4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		滴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
膪	*rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
揥	*tʰeds, *teː
腣	*teː, *teːɡs
諦	*teːɡs
偙	*teːɡs
渧	*teːɡs
帝	*teːɡs
楴	*tʰeːɡs
啼	*deː
蹄	*deː
締	*deː, *deːɡs
崹	*deː
鶙	*deː
禘	*deːɡs
啻	*hljeɡs
嫡	*rteɡ, *teːɡ
摘	*rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
謫	*rteːɡ
讁	*rteːɡ
擿	*deɡ
蹢	*deɡ, *teːɡ
適	*tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇	*teːɡ
滴	*teːɡ
鏑	*teːɡ
甋	*teːɡ
樀	*teːɡ, *deːɡ
敵	*deːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *teːɡ): semantic 水 + phonetic 啻 (OC *hljeɡs).

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tek (“to drip”), cognate to Tibetan ཐིག་པ (thig pa, “drop”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dī (di¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶ / dik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tit
• Eastern Min (BUC): dék
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deh⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tih / tek / tiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dih⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷tiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dī
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: di
    • Wade–Giles: ti¹
    • Yale: dī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: di
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dik⁶ / dik¹
    • Yale: dihk / dīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹ / dik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶ / dig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/, /tɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tit
    • Hakka Romanization System: did^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: did⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /tit̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛiʔ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Jiangkou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: deh⁶
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: deh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛʔ²¹/
  • (Nanri)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: deh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /te̞ʔ²¹/
  • (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: deh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tih
    • Tâi-lô: tih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diq
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiʔ³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /tiʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek
    • Tâi-lô: tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deg
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiak
    • Tâi-lô: tiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diag
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚⁵/

Note:

• tih - vernacular (“to drip; to drip something into; drop of liquid; classifier; a little; trace left”);
• tek/tiak - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dih⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tih
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷tiq
    • MiniDict: tih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tiɪʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tek

Rime
Character	滴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都歷切
Baxter	tek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/tek̚/
Wang Li	/tiek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	di
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*teːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滴
Reading #	1/1
No.	2333
Phonetic component	帝
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	的
Old Chinese	/*teːɡ/

Definitions

滴

1. to drip; to dribble
2. to drip something into

   滴兩滴眼藥水 [Cantonese, trad.]
   滴两滴眼药水 [Cantonese, simp.]

   dik⁶ loeng⁵ dik⁶ ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi² [Jyutping]

   to instill a few drops of eye drops

3. drop of liquid
4. Classifier for drops of liquid. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   兩滴水／两滴水  ―  liǎng dī shuǐ  ―  two drops of water

5. (Hakka, Southern Min) a little

   一滴仔 [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t tih á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a little

   滴滴仔 [Hokkien]  ―  tih tih á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a little bit

6. (Mainland China Hokkien) trace left by a drop of liquid

Compounds

• 一滴無存 / 一滴无存
• 一點一滴 / 一点一滴 (yīdiǎnyīdī)
• 垂涎欲滴 (chuíxiányùdī)
• 嬌嬌滴滴 / 娇娇滴滴
• 嬌滴滴 / 娇滴滴 (jiāodīdī)
• 打滴溜
• 打點滴 / 打点滴 (dǎ diǎndī)
• 明滴溜
• 水滴 (shuǐdī)
• 水滴石穿 (shuǐdīshíchuān)
• 油滴 (yóudī)
• 涓滴
• 涓滴歸公 / 涓滴归公
• 淚滴 / 泪滴 (lèidī)
• 滴下
• 滴了天
• 滴修都速
• 滴劑 / 滴剂
• 滴子
• 滴定 (dīdìng)
• 滴定管 (dīdìngguǎn)
• 滴屑屑
• 滴水 (dīshuǐ)
• 滴水不沾
• 滴水不漏 (dīshuǐbùlòu)
• 滴水成冰
• 滴水成凍 / 滴水成冻
• 滴水未沾
• 滴水檐
• 滴水漏斗
• 滴水瓦
• 滴水穿石
• 滴流
• 滴流撲 / 滴流扑
• 滴流流
• 滴液
• 滴淚 / 滴泪
• 滴溜
• 滴溜兒 / 滴溜儿
• 滴溜撲 / 滴溜扑
• 滴溜溜
• 滴溜溜撲 / 滴溜溜扑
• 滴漏 (dīlòu)
• 漏滴
• 滴滴 (dīdī)
• 滴滴打打
• 滴滴涕 (dīdītì)
• 滴滴答答 (dīdīdādā)
• 滴滴蹬蹬
• 滴滴鄧鄧 / 滴滴邓邓 (dīdīdèngdèng)
• 滴瀝 / 滴沥
• 滴留撲 / 滴留扑
• 滴石
• 滴答
• 滴管 (dīguǎn)
• 滴粉搓酥
• 滴羞篤速 / 滴羞笃速
• 滴羞跌屑
• 滴羞蹀躞
• 滴羞都蘇 / 滴羞都苏
• 滴翠
• 滴落 (dīluò)
• 滴蘇 / 滴苏
• 滴蟲 / 滴虫 (dīchóng)
• 滴血
• 滴酒不沾 (dījiǔbùzhān)
• 滴酒不飲 / 滴酒不饮
• 滴酥
• 滴里嘟嚕
• 滴里搭拉
• 滴零搭拉
• 硯水滴兒 / 砚水滴儿
• 硯滴 / 砚滴
• 窮滴滴 / 穷滴滴
• 血滴子
• 量子滴 (liàngzǐdī)
• 銅壺滴漏 / 铜壶滴漏
• 饞涎欲滴 / 馋涎欲滴 (chánxiányùdī)
• 點滴 / 点滴 (diǎndī)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dik⁶
    • Yale: dihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/

Verb

滴

1. (Cantonese, of ball) to bounce against a surface

Compounds

• 滴滴仔

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dī (di¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dī → di (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ → ˙ㄉㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: di̊
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁵
    • Yale: di
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .di
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/ → /d̥i/

Definitions

滴

1. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 的².
2. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 地².
3. (cute-sounding) Alternative form of 得 (“Used after a verb or an adjective and before a complement”).

References

• “滴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “的”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 274.

Japanese

Kanji

滴

(Jōyō kanji)

1. drop (of liquid)

Readings

• Go-on: ちゃく (chaku)
• Kan-on: てき (teki, Jōyō)
• Kun: しずく (shizuku, 滴, Jōyō)^{←しづく (siduku, 滴, historical)}、したたる (shitataru, 滴る, Jōyō)、したたり (shitatari)

Compounds

• 水滴(すいてき) (suiteki): drop of water

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
滴
しずく Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
雫

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕizɨkɯ̟]
• (Tokyo) しずく [shìzúkúꜜ] (Odaka – [3])

Noun

滴(しずく) • (shizuku) ^{←しづく (siduku)?}

1. drop (of water or other liquids)

   Synonyms: 露 (tsuyu), 滴り (shitatari)

Derived terms

• 雨(あめ)雫(しずく) (ameshizuku)
• 末(すえ)の露(つゆ)、本(もと)の雫(しずく) (sue no tsuyu, moto no shizuku)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
滴
てき Grade: S
kan'on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te̞kʲi]

Counter

滴(てき) • (-teki) 

1. counter for drops (of liquid)

Further reading

• “滴”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

滴 (eum 적 (jeok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

滴: Hán Nôm readings: nhích, nhếch, rích, tách, tích, trích

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