疊

See also: 叠, 畳, 曡, and 疉

Translingual

Traditional	疊
Shinjitai	畳
Simplified	叠

Han character

疊 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 田田田一 (WWWM), four-corner 6010₇, composition ⿱畾冝)

Descendants

• 畳, 叠

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 767, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21983
• Dae Jaweon: page 1177, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2555, character 14
• Unihan data for U+758A

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Chinese

trad.		疊
simp.		叠
alternative forms		曡 疉 畳 㬪 𣆹 曡 疉 畳 㬪 𣆹 𤴁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
曡	*l'ɯːb
疊	*l'ɯːb

畾 + 宜 – a pile.

Originally as 曡, with 晶 (jīng) on top. Shuowen commented that the shape change was promoted by emperor of the short-lived Xin Dynasty, who deemed the use of three "suns" (日) in this character too empowering - compared to three "fields" (田).

Etymology

Cognate with 褶 (“lined dress”), Tibetan ལྟབ (ltab, “to fold, gather up, to lay or put together”), ལྡེབ (ldeb, “to bend round or back, to turn round, to double down”), ལྡབ (ldab, “to fold up, repeat, do again”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dié (die²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daap⁶ / dip⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thia̍p
• Eastern Min (BUC): tăk / diĕk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tha̍h / thia̍p / tia̍p

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tah⁸ / tiab⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵diq; ⁵deq

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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: daap⁶ / dip⁶
    • Yale: daahp / dihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daap⁹ / dip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dab⁶ / dib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːp̚²/, /tiːp̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thia̍p
    • Hakka Romanization System: tiab
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tiab⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯ap̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: tăk / diĕk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaʔ⁵/, /tieʔ⁵/

Note:

• tăk - colloquial;
• diĕk - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tha̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tha̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tah
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰaʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰaʔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thia̍p
    • Tâi-lô: thia̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiap
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiap̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiap̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍p
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diap
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiap̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiap̚¹²¹/

Note: tha̍h - vernacular, thia̍p/tia̍p - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tah⁸ / tiab⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tha̍h / thia̍p
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaʔ⁴/, /tʰiap̚⁴/

Note:

• tah8 - vernacular;
• tiab8 - literary.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵diq; ⁵deq
    • MiniDict: dih^去; deh^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²diq; ²deq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /diɪʔ³⁴/, /dəʔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dep

Rime
Character	疊
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱiep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dip6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤ[i]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dié
Middle Chinese	‹ dep ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁ[i]p/
English	double, accumulate
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	疊
Reading #	1/1
No.	2365
Phonetic component	疊
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	牒
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːb/
Notes	同曡

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 疊

1. to fold; to fold up
2. to fold over in layers; to pile up; to be piled up
3. pile
4. layer
5. to repeat, to duplicate
6. to be repetitious
7. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 㲲 (dié).

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	畳
Kyūjitai	疊

Kanji

疊

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 畳)

Readings

• On (unclassified): じょう (jō); ちょう (chō)
• Kun: たたむ (tatamu, 疊む); たたみ (tatami, 疊); かさねる (kasaneru, 疊ねる)

Noun

1. tatami

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

疊 (điệp, đệp, xếp)

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