翟

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 翟
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

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, 𩱲, 躍, 趯, 藋, 曜

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí, zhái (di², zhai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ, ㄓㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶, zaak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhái
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jair
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik⁶, zaak⁶
    • Yale: dihk, jaahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹, dzaak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/, /t͡sɑːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠæk̚/, /dek̚/▼

Rime
Character	翟	翟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	陌 (113)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	瑒伯切	徒歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠæk̚/	/dek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚak̚/	/dek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡak̚/	/dɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖaɨjk̚/	/dɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/ȡɐk̚/	/dek̚/
Wang Li	/ȡɐk̚/	/diek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱɐk̚/	/dʱiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhé	dí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lˤewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r'aːwɢ/, /*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	翟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2227	2231
Phonetic component	翟	翟
Rime group	鐸	藥
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime		荻
Old Chinese	/*r'aːwɢ/	/*l'eːwɢ/
Notes		即表有長尾羽之雉

Definitions

1. (zhái): A surname​.
2. (dí): A long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes.
3. (dí): An alternative name for dí (狄).

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Japanese

Kanji

翟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kind of pheasant

Readings

• On: 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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