稚

See also: 穉 and 推

稚 U+7A1A, 稚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A1A ← 稙 [U+7A19] CJK Unified Ideographs 稛 → [U+7A1B]

Translingual

Han character

稚 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹木人土 (HDOG), four-corner 2091₄, composition ⿰禾隹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 855, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2613, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7A1A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		稚
alternative forms		稺 穉

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ils) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 屖 (OC *sliːl).

During the Han Dynasty, the 屖 component was commonly substituted with 隹 (zhuī).

Etymology

Related to 遲 (OC *l'il, “slow; late”) (Liu, 1999; Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 稚

1. ^† immature grain
2. ^⁜ young; infantile; immature
3. ^⁜ child; infant

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Japanese

Kanji

稚

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: ち (chi, Jōyō)
• Kun: おさない (osanai)、わかい (wakai, 稚い)、いとけない (itokenai, 稚い)

Compounds

Compounds

• 稚鮎(ちあゆ) (chiayu)
• 稚気(ちき) (chiki)
• 稚魚(ちぎょ) (chigyo)
• 稚児(ちご) (chigo)
• 稚子(ちし) (chishi)
• 稚拙(ちせつ) (chisetsu)

• 稚嫩(ちどん) (chidon): youth and tenderness
• 丁稚(でっち) (detchi)
• 丁稚奉公(でっちぼうこう) (detchibōkō)
• 幼稚(ようち) (yōchi): infantility
• 幼稚園(ようちえん) (yōchien): kindergarten
• 稚鰤(わかさ) (wakasa)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 稚 (MC drijH). Recorded as Middle Korean 티〯 (thǐ) (Yale: thi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

稚 (eumhun 어릴 치 (eoril chi))

1. hanja form^? of 치 (“infantile”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 치어 (稚漁, chieo)
• 치졸 (稚拙, chijol)
• 치기 (稚氣, chigi)
• 치수 (稚樹, chisu)
• 유치 (幼稚, yuchi)
• 유치원 (幼稚園, yuchiwon)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]