羝

See also: 牴

羝 U+7F9D, 羝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F9D ← 羜 [U+7F9C] CJK Unified Ideographs 羞 → [U+7F9E]

Translingual

Han character

羝 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+5, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 廿手竹心一 (TQHPM) or 廿手竹女戈 (TQHVI), four-corner 8254₀, composition ⿰羊氐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 952, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28470
• Dae Jaweon: page 1395, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3130, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7F9D

Chinese

trad.		羝
simp. #		羝
alternative forms		𦍝 𦍞 𦍿 牴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羝
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
低	*tiːl
氐	*tiːl, *til
袛	*tiːl
羝	*tiːl
眡	*tiːl, *djilʔ
岻	*tiːl, *dil
奃	*tiːl
趆	*tiːl, *tiːls
柢	*tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls
邸	*tiːlʔ
底	*tiːlʔ
詆	*tiːlʔ, *diːl
坻	*tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil
抵	*tiːlʔ
牴	*tiːlʔ
觝	*tiːlʔ
弤	*tiːlʔ
軧	*tiːlʔ
骶	*tiːls
砥	*tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils
胝	*til
疷	*til
秪	*til
泜	*dil
蚳	*dil
彽	*dil
阺	*dil
貾	*dil
祗	*tjil
厎	*tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ
茋	*tjilʔ
鴟	*tʰjil
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tiːl): semantic 羊 (“sheep; goat”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dī (di¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dai¹
• Jin (Wiktionary): di¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): te

  (Teochew, Peng'im): di¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ti

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dī
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: di
    • Wade–Giles: ti¹
    • Yale: dī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: di
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dai¹
    • Yale: dāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: di¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ti¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te
    • Tâi-lô: te
    • Phofsit Daibuun: def
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /te⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: di¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ti
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ti
    • MiniDict: ti^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ti
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ti⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tej

Rime
Character	羝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都奚切
Baxter	tej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tei/
Pan Wuyun	/tei/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛj/
Li Rong	/tei/
Wang Li	/tiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tiːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羝
Reading #	1/1
No.	2237
Phonetic component	氐
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	低
Old Chinese	/*tiːl/

Definitions

羝

1. (literary or in compounds) ram; buck (male sheep or goat)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 公羊 (“ram; buck”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		羝
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		公羊
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	公羊
	Taiwan	公羊
	Harbin	羊扒子
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	公羊, 種羊 ‡
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	羯子, 圪羝 ‡,#
	Xi'an	公羊
	Xining	公羊
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	騷狐
	Lanzhou	騷羊 ‡, 羝羊 ‡
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	公羊, 騷羊 ‡
	Wuhan	公羊子
	Guilin	公羊
	Liuzhou	公羊, 羊牯
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	種羊 ‡
	Yangzhou	公羊
	Hefei	公羊
Cantonese	Guangzhou	羊公, 羊牯
	Hong Kong	羊公, 公羊
	Yangjiang	羊公
	Nanning	羊公
	Wuzhou	羊公
	Yulin	羊公
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	公羊
Gan	Nanchang	公羊
	Lichuan	羊公兒
Hakka	Meixian	羊牯
	Yudu	羊牯
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	羊牯
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	羊牯仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	羊牯
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	羊牯
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	羊牯
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	羊牯
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	羊公
Jin	Taiyuan	公羊, 羝羊 ‡,*, 老騷狐 ‡,#
	Taiyuan (Jiancaoping)	羝羊 *, 騷狐子 #
	Taiyuan (Jinyuan)	羝羊 †,*, 羝骨驢 †,#
	Xinzhou	羝羊 ‡,*, 羯羊 ‡,*, 騷狐 #
	Shenmu	騷狐 ‡, 圪羝 †
Northern Min	Jian'ou	羊牯
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	羊犅
Southern Min	Xiamen	羊犅, 羊角
	Quanzhou	羊角
	Zhangzhou	羊犅
	Taipei	羊犅
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	羊哥
	Kaohsiung	羊犅
	Yilan	羊犅
	Changhua (Lukang)	羊犅
	Taichung	羊公
	Tainan	羊犅
	Hsinchu	羊犅
	Kinmen	羊犅
	Penghu (Magong)	羊犅
	Chaozhou	羊牯
	Jieyang	羊牯
	Haikou	羊公, 羊牯
Puxian Min	Putian	羊公, 羊牯
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	羊牯
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	羊公 generic, 羊牯 immature, 羊哥 ‡
	Xianyou	羊牯
	Xianyou (Fengting)	羊牯
	Xianyou (Youyang)	羊牯
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	公羊
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	公羊
Wu	Suzhou	雄羊
	Danyang	騷羊
	Wenzhou	羊牯
	Jinhua	羊牯
Xiang	Changsha	羊牯子
	Shuangfeng	羊牯子
	Hengyang	羊牯子
Note	† - not castrated; ‡ - for breeding; * - ram; # - buck (goat)

Compounds

• 乳羝
• 圪羝
• 完羝
• 慍羝 / 愠羝
• 牂羝不辨
• 牧羝
• 籓羝
• 羝乳
• 羝乳得歸 / 羝乳得归
• 羝氳 / 羝氲
• 羝羊
• 羝羊困
• 羝羊觸藩 / 羝羊触藩
• 羝觸藩 / 羝触藩
• 藩羝
• 觸藩羝 / 触藩羝
• 蹇羝

Japanese

Kanji

羝

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei)
• Kun: おひつじ (ohitsuji)

Korean

Hanja

羝 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羝: Hán Việt readings: đê
羝: Nôm readings: dê

1. chữ Nôm form of dê (“goat”)