荻

Translingual

Han character

荻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿大竹火 (TKHF), four-corner 4428₉, composition ⿱艹狄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1032, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31005
• Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3223, character 12
• Unihan data for U+837B

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Chinese

trad.		荻
simp. #		荻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
逖	*tʰeːɡ
悐	*tʰeːɡ
狄	*deːɡ
荻	*deːɡ
梑	*deːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dí (di²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶

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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/

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• Middle Chinese: dek

Rime
Character	荻
Reading #	1/1
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*deːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	荻
Reading #	1/1
No.	2207
Phonetic component	狄
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	荻
Old Chinese	/*deːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 荻

1. Amur silvergrass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)

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Japanese

Kanji

荻

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. Amur silver-grass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
2. reed, cane

Readings

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←ぢやく (dyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: てき (teki)
• Kun: おぎ (ogi, 荻)^{←をぎ (wogi, 荻, historical)}

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
荻
おぎ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Ultimate derivation unknown. One theory suggests that it might be the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of classical verb 招く (ancient reading woku, modern rendering oku, “to invite, to beckon someone closer”, also found in some texts with the ancient reading wogu), from the way the grass waves in the wind.

Noun

1. Amur silver-grass (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)

Further reading

• Etymology entry for 荻 at Japan Dictionary: http://www.nihonjiten.com/data/46206.html

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

荻 • (jeok) (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune–Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 荻 (địch)

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