翟

Translingual

Han character

翟 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 957, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1403, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3350, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7FDF

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Chinese

trad.		翟
simp. #		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／会意) : 羽 (“feather”) + 隹 (“bird”).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí (di²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): te̍k / tia̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dí
    • Wade–Giles: ti²
    • Yale: dí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyi
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dik⁶
    • Yale: dihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: dek

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
Baxter	dek
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dik6

• 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	/*lˁewk/
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

(deprecated template usage) 翟

1. a long-tailed species of pheasant, or its plumes
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 狄.

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhái (zhai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): te̍k / tia̍k / the̍k
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵zaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhái
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhái
    • Wade–Giles: chai²
    • Yale: jái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jair
    • Palladius: чжай (čžaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaak⁶
    • Yale: jaahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: te̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ti̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dek
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: the̍k
    • Tâi-lô: thi̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tek
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɪk̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵zaq
    • MiniDict: zah^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²zaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zaʔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: draek

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
Baxter	draek
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zak6

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 翟

1. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

翟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. kind of pheasant

Readings

• On (unclassified): けき (keki); じゃく (jaku); たく (taku); てき (teki)
• 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

(deprecated template usage) 翟 (địch)

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