砦

砦 U+7826, 砦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7826 ← 砥 [U+7825] CJK Unified Ideographs 砧 → [U+7827]

Translingual

Han character

砦 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 卜心一口 (YPMR), four-corner 2160₁, composition ⿱此石)

1. stockade, fort, military outpost
2. brothel

Derived characters

• 𡎵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 828, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24098
• Dae Jaweon: page 1243, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2428, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7826

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
些	*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐	*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴	*zreː
祡	*zreː
茈	*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦	*zreːs
砦	*zraːds
寨	*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙	*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉	*sʰeːʔ
鮆	*zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥	*zeːs, *zes
貲	*ʔse
髭	*ʔse
頾	*ʔse
訾	*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜	*ʔse, *ze
鈭	*ʔse, *sʰe
姕	*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜	*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫	*ʔseʔ
訿	*ʔseʔ
呰	*ʔseʔ
嘴	*ʔseʔ
雌	*sʰe
此	*sʰeʔ
佌	*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛	*sʰes
疵	*ze
骴	*ze, *zes
胔	*ze, *zes
飺	*ze
齜	*ʔsre

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 砦 – see 寨 (“stockade; stronghold; fort; stockaded village; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 寨).

Compounds

• 堡砦 / 堡寨
• 營砦 / 营寨 (yíngzhài)
• 箐砦 / 箐寨 (qìngzhài)
• 鹿砦 / 鹿寨 (lùzhài)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		砦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhài (zhai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaai⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chāi / chē

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhài
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhài
    • Wade–Giles: chai⁴
    • Yale: jài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jay
    • Palladius: чжай (čžaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaai⁶
    • Yale: jaaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːi̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chāi
    • Tâi-lô: tsāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zai
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sai⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sai²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chē
    • Tâi-lô: tsē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ze
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡se⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡se²²/

Note:

• chāi - literary;
• chē - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: dzraejH

Rime
Character	砦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	夬 (29)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	犲夬切
Baxter	dzraejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒˠaiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐᵚaiH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒaiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐaɨjsH/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒaiH/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒæiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zaai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zraːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	砦
Reading #	1/1
No.	1692
Phonetic component	此
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	寨
Old Chinese	/*zraːds/
Notes	見三國志，莊子作柴

Definitions

砦

1. a surname

Japanese

Kanji

砦

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜ (ze)
• Kan-on: さい (sai)
• Kun: とりで (toride, 砦)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
砦
とりで Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
塁 寨

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾʲide̞]
• (Tokyo) とりで [tòrídé] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

砦(とりで) • (toride) 

1. fort

   最後(さいご)の砦(とりで)を崩(くず)す

   saigo no toride o kuzusu

   break down the last fort

See also

• Ainu: チャシ (chashi)

References

• “^▲砦”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

砦 (eum 채 (chae))

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