第

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See also: 笫 and 笰
第 U+7B2C, 第
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B2C
← 笫
[U+7B2B]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 笭 →
[U+7B2D]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

第 (radical 118 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓中竹 (HNLH), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱⺮⿹丿弔)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 881, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25943
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2959, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7B2C

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 第

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梯 tʰiːl
睇 tʰiːl, *diːls
涕 tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
挮 tʰiːlʔ
鬀 tʰiːls, *diːls
剃 tʰiːls
綈 diːl
蕛 diːl
稊 diːl
苐 diːl
鵜 diːl
銻 diːl
鮷 diːl
罤 diːl
弟 diːlʔ, *diːls
娣 diːlʔ, *diːls
悌 diːlʔ, *diːls
第 diːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *diːls): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls).

竹 here refers to the bamboo strips used for writing (e.g. accounting, classification) in ancient times. See also 等.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 第
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 特計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /deiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /deiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /deiH/
Wang
Li		 /dieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 第
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]ˤəjʔ-s/
English sequence

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 第
Reading # 1/1
No. 2298
Phonetic
component		 弟
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 第
Old
Chinese		 /*diːls/
Notes 弟轉註字見左傳

Etymology 1[edit]

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Definitions[edit]

第

  1. sequence; number
  2. grade; degree
  3. (historical) rank in the imperial examinations
  4. Ordinal number marker, used before a number to make the number ordinal.
    第二  ―  dì'èr  ―  second
    第十  ―  dìshí  ―  tenth
    安全第一  ―  ānquán dìyī  ―  safety first
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 第

Etymology 2[edit]

Contraction of 第二 (dai6 ji6, “second”).

Definitions[edit]

第

  1. (Cantonese) different; another; other
Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (第):
  • Japanese: 第 (だい) (dai)
  • Korean: 제 (第, je)
  • Vietnamese: đệ (第)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

第

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Prefix[edit]

Kanji in this term
第
だい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

第 (hiragana だい, rōmaji dai-)

  1. ordinal marker, often with affix 号. Is like the in English, but only used before numbers.
    第 (だい)２ (に)号 (ごう)
    dai-ni gō
    The 2nd
    第 (だい)１ (じゅう)３ (さん)話 (わ)
    dai-jūsan wa
    Chapter 13

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

第 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune-Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

第 (đệ)

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