蒂

蒂 U+8482, 蒂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8482 ← 蒁 [U+8481] CJK Unified Ideographs 蒃 → [U+8483]

Translingual

Han character

蒂 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 廿卜月月 (TYBB), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹帝)

Derived characters

• 𤀐 𧬺 𧂨 𫣥

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1047, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31495
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3254, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8482

Chinese

trad.		蒂
simp. #		蒂
alternative forms		蔕 疐 𧁏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
帶	*taːds
蹛	*taːds, *dads
艜	*taːds
慸	*rtʰaːds, *tʰads, *deːds
滯	*dads
懘	*tʰjads, *tʰjalʔ
蔕	*teːds
螮	*teːds
摕	*teːds, *deːds, *deːd
僀	*teːds
殢	*tʰeːds, *hleːds
遰	*deːds
墆	*deːds, *deːd
嵽	*deːd
蒂	*teːds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *teːds): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 帝 (OC *teːɡs).

Etymology

“cool”

Neologism from clipping of 陰蒂 / 阴蒂 (yīndì, “clitoris”), compare 屌 (diǎo, “penis; cool”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì (di⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dai³ / tai³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tì / tè

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dih⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵ti
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): di⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dì
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴
    • Yale: dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dai³ / tai³
    • Yale: dai / tai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dai³ / tai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dei³ / tei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯³³/, /tʰɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tì
    • Tâi-lô: tì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dix
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /ti¹¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /ti²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ti⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tè
    • Tâi-lô: tè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dex
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te²¹/

Note:

• tì - vernacular;
• tè - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dih⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tih
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵ti
    • MiniDict: ti^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ti
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ti³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: di⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁴⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*teːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蒂
Reading #	1/1
No.	2312
Phonetic component	帶
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	帝
Old Chinese	/*teːds/
Notes	蔕今字

Definitions

蒂

1. a stalk (peduncle or pedicel) of a flower, flower head, or fruit
2. (Mandarin, neologism, Internet slang, of a female) short for 陰蒂／阴蒂 (yīndì, “clitoris”)
3. (Mandarin, feminism, neologism, Internet slang, of a female) cool; awesome; badass

   太蒂了！  ―  Tài dì le!  ―  This is awesome!

Synonyms

• 梗 (gěng)
• (Hakka) 蒂頭／蒂头
• (Shanghainese) 蒂陀
• (Xiang) 蒂子, 蒂公, 蒂蒂子

Compounds

• 一瓜一蒂
• 並蒂 / 并蒂
• 並蒂蓮 / 并蒂莲 (bìngdìlián)
• 仙蒂瑞拉
• 史蒂芬生
• 固蒂
• 夏綠蒂 / 夏绿蒂
• 底蒂 (té-tì) (Min Nan)
• 根深蒂固 (gēnshēndìgù)
• 根蒂
• 梵蒂岡 / 梵蒂冈 (Fàndìgāng)
• 毛蒂青皮
• 深根固蒂
• 無根無蒂 / 无根无蒂
• 煙蒂 / 烟蒂 (yāndì)
• 瓜熟蒂落 (guāshúdìluò)
• 甘瓜苦蒂
• 羅曼蒂克 / 罗曼蒂克 (luómàndìkè)
• 美蒂雅
• 芥蒂 (jièdì)
• 芭蒂
• 菸蒂 / 烟蒂 (yāndì)
• 蒂芥
• 蓮開並蒂 / 莲开并蒂
• 陰蒂 / 阴蒂 (yīndì)
• 馬蒂斯 / 马蒂斯

Japanese

Kanji

蒂

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei)、たい (tai)
• Kun: へた (heta, 蒂)

Korean

Hanja

蒂 • (che) (hangeul 체)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒂: Hán Việt readings: đế
蒂: Nôm readings: đấy, đé

1. chữ Nôm form of đấy (“there, that place, that”)