翟

翟 U+7FDF, 翟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FDF ← 翞 [U+7FDE] CJK Unified Ideographs 翠 → [U+7FE0]

Translingual

Han character

翟 (radical 124, 羽+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸一人土 (SMOG), four-corner 1721₄, composition ⿱羽隹)

Derived characters

• 濯, 䊮, 蠗, 嬥, 擢, 燿, 耀, 櫂, 躍, 趯, 曜, 藋, 𩱲

References

• KangXi: page 957, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3350, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7FDF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		翟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翟
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (翟) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
櫂	*r'eːwɢs
濯	*r'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
耀	*lewɢs
曜	*lewɢs
燿	*lewɢs
糶	*l̥ʰeːwɢs
粜	*l̥ʰeːwɢs
嬥	*l'eːw, *l'eːwʔ, *l'eːwɢs, *r'eːwɢ
藋	*l'eːwɢs
躍	*lewɢ
戳	*r'eːwɢ
擢	*r'eːwɢ
蠗	*r'eːwɢ
鸐	*r'eːwɢ
翟	*r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
趯	*l̥ʰeːwɢ
籊	*l̥ʰeːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ
糴	*l'eːwɢ
䊮	*l'eːwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 羽 (“feather”) + 隹 (“bird”).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí (di²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tia̍k / te̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik⁶
    • Yale: dihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /dek̚/▼

Rime
Character	翟
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒歷切
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'eːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dí
Middle Chinese	‹ dek ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤewk/
English	pheasant
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	翟
Reading #	2/2
No.	2231
Phonetic component	翟
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	荻
Old Chinese	/*l'eːwɢ/
Notes	即表有長尾羽之雉

Definitions

翟

1. a long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes
2. Alternative form of 狄.

Compounds

• 翬翟／翚翟

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhái (zhai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tia̍k / te̍k / the̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhái
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˊ
    • Wade–Giles: chai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jair
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaak⁶
    • Yale: jaahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zag⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: the̍k
    • Tâi-lô: thi̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tek
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɪk̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠæk̚/▼

Rime
Character	翟
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	陌 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	瑒伯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖaɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ȡɐk̚/
Wang Li	/ȡɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhé

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*r'aːwɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	翟
Reading #	1/2
No.	2227
Phonetic component	翟
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*r'aːwɢ/

Definitions

翟

1. A surname​.

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Japanese

Kanji

翟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kind of pheasant

Readings

• On (unclassified): けき (keki); じゃく (jaku); たく (taku)
• Kun: きじ (kiji)

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Korean

Hanja

翟 • (jeok, chaek) (hangeul 적, 책, revised jeok, chaek, McCune–Reischauer chŏk, ch'aek, Yale cek, chayk)

1. pheasant

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Vietnamese

Han character

翟 (địch)

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