牒

牒 U+7252, 牒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7252 ← 牑 [U+7251] CJK Unified Ideographs 牓 → [U+7253]

Translingual

Han character

牒 (Kangxi radical 91, 片+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中中心廿木 (LLPTD) or 中弓心廿木 (LNPTD), four-corner 2409₄, composition ⿰片枼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 694, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19871
• Dae Jaweon: page 1107, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2017, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7252

Chinese

trad.		牒
simp. #		牒

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
貰	*ɦljebs, *hljebs
跇	*l̥ʰebs, *lebs
迣	*ʔljebs
世	*hljebs
泄	*lebs, *sled
枻	*lebs
詍	*lebs
靾	*lebs
袣	*lebs
抴	*lebs, *led
呭	*lebs
勩	*lebs, *libs
屜	*l̥ʰeːbs
鰈	*l̥ʰaːb, *l'eːb
渫	*zreːb, *sled
煠	*zreːb, *l̥ʰeb, *leb
喋	*rlaːb, *ʔl'eːb, *l'eːb
鞢	*rlaːb, *sleːb
殜	*l'eb, *leb, *lab
葉	*hljeb, *leb
弽	*hljeb, *hleːb
韘	*hljeb, *sleːb
枼	*leb
楪	*leb
揲	*leb, *l'eːb, *ɦljed
鍱	*leb
偞	*leb, *hleːb
蝶	*l̥ʰeːb, *l'eːb
牒	*l'eːb
蹀	*l'eːb
諜	*l'eːb
堞	*l'eːb
牃	*l'eːb
褋	*l'eːb
惵	*l'eːb
碟	*l'eːb
屧	*sleːb
屟	*sleːb
紲	*sled
齛	*sled
疶	*sled
緤	*sled
媟	*sled

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dié (die²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dip⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dié
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dié
    • Wade–Giles: tieh²
    • Yale: dyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dye
    • Palladius: де (de)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dip⁶
    • Yale: dihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːp̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: dep

Rime
Character	牒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	怗 (158)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒協切
Baxter	dep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dep̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dep̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛp̚/
Li Rong	/dep̚/
Wang Li	/diep̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dip6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'eːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	牒
Reading #	1/1
No.	11572
Phonetic component	世
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	牒
Old Chinese	/*l'eːb/

Definitions

牒

1. writing slip made of bamboo or wood in ancient China
2. official document or note; certificate; credentials
3. records of family pedigree; genealogical records
4. books; documents; records
5. plaint; indictment

Compounds

• 世牒
• 五花度牒
• 信牒
• 最後通牒 / 最后通牒 (zuìhòutōngdié)
• 官牒
• 度牒 (dùdié)
• 戒牒 (jièdié)
• 截蒲為牒 / 截蒲为牒
• 敕牒
• 文牒
• 牒文 (diéwén)
• 牒狀 / 牒状
• 牒發 / 牒发
• 牒籍
• 牒記 / 牒记
• 牒訴 / 牒诉
• 玉牒
• 發牒 / 发牒
• 移牒
• 符牒 (fúdié)
• 蒲牒寫書 / 蒲牒写书
• 訟牒 / 讼牒
• 譜牒 / 谱牒 (pǔdié)
• 通牒 (tōngdié)

Japanese

Kanji

牒

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō)^{←てふ (tefu, historical)}
• Kun: ふだ (fuda, 牒)

Compounds

• 符牒(ふちょう) (fuchō)

References

• “^▲牒”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

牒 • (cheop) (hangeul 첩, revised cheop, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏp, Yale chep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牒: Hán Nôm readings: điệp

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