狄

Translingual

Han character

狄 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 大竹火 (KHF), four-corner 4928₀, composition ⿰犭火)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 707, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20290
• Dae Jaweon: page 1120, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1337, character 1
• Unihan data for U+72C4

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Chinese

trad.		狄
simp. #		狄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 狄
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

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

	Old Chinese
逖	*tʰeːɡ
悐	*tʰeːɡ
狄	*deːɡ
荻	*deːɡ
梑	*deːɡ

Etymology

"northern barbarian"

Unknown

"low servant"

Either based on the northern foreigners' endo-ethnonym, or more likely Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Monic *ɗiik, Proto-Bahnaric *ɗɨc, as well as Proto-Mon-Khmer **ɗiək ~ ɗiik ~ *ɗik (“slave”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí, tì (di², ti⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ, ㄊㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): te̍k / tia̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dí
    • Wade–Giles: ti²
    • Yale: dí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tì
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tì
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi⁴
    • Yale: tì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tih
    • Palladius: ти (ti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dik⁶
    • Yale: dihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dek

Rime
Character	狄
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
Baxter	dek
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*deːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dí
Middle Chinese	‹ dek ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁek/
English	(name of a northern tribe)
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	狄
Reading #	1/1
No.	2206
Phonetic component	狄
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	荻
Old Chinese	/*deːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 狄

1. the Di people; Zhou dynasty era term for tribes from northern China
2. ^† low servant
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

狄

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. barbarian

Readings

• On (unclassified): てき (teki)
• Kun: えびす (ebisu)

Compounds

• 夷狄(いてき) (iteki)

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Korean

Hanja

狄 • (jeok) (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune–Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

1. tribe from northern China

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 狄 (địch, đệt)

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