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侄

侄	U+4F84, 侄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F84

← 侃
[U+4F83]

CJK Unified Ideographs

侅 →
[U+4F85]

See also: 姪

Translingual

Han character

侄 (radical 9 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人一戈土 (OMIG), four-corner 2121₄, composition ⿰亻至)

nephew

References

KangXi: page 101, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 579

Dae Jaweon: page 214, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 147, character 4

Unihan data for U+4F84

Chinese

simp. and trad.		侄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (至) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
致	*tiɡs
輊	*tiɡs
駤	*tiɡs
跮	tʰiɡs, tʰiɡ
荎	di, diːɡ
緻	*diɡs
至	*tjiɡs
鵄	*tʰji
胵	*tʰji
痓	*tʰjiɡs
咥	hriɡs, tiːɡ, diːɡ, tʰiɡ
窒	tiːɡ, tiɡ
蛭	tiːɡ, tiɡ, *tjiɡ
垤	*diːɡ
耋	*diːɡ
姪	diːɡ, diɡ
絰	*diːɡ
恎	*diːɡ
挃	*tiɡ
庢	*tiɡ
銍	tiɡ, tjiɡ
秷	*tiɡ
螲	*tiɡ
侄	diɡ, tjiɡ
桎	*tjiɡ
郅	*tjiɡ
晊	*tjiɡ
室	*hliɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): zhí (zhi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄓˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zat⁶
Min Nan (POJ): ti̍t / chit / chi̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhí
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
  - Wade-Giles: chih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zat⁶
  - Yale: jaht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzat⁹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti̍t
  - Tâi-lô: ti̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dit
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tit̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tit̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit
  - Tâi-lô: tsit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cid
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t
  - Tâi-lô: tsi̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cit
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕit̚⁴/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 侄
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴²/
	Qingdao	/tʃz̩⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡sz̩²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sz̩³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sz̩²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩ʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡səʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sz̩³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/zəʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/zəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/d͡zai²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰi²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰɨʔ²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰət̚⁵/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/tʃʰït̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sɐt̚²/
	Nanning	/t͡sɐt̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sɐt̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/tit̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/tiʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ti²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/tiak̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡sit̚³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	侄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之日切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cit̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhi

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*diɡ/, /*tjiɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	侄	侄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17366	17373
Phonetic component	至	至
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	秩	質
Old Chinese	/*diɡ/	/*tjiɡ/
Notes	姪今字	已見金文

Definitions

侄

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Japanese

Kanji

侄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: しつ (shitsu), しち (shichi), てつ (tetsu)

Kun: かたい (katai), おろか (oroka), とどまる (todomaru)

Korean

Hanja

侄 • ‎(jil) (hangeul 질, revised jil, McCune-Reischauer chil)

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