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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 50 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大心月中月 (KPBLB), four-corner 44227)

  1. belt, girdle, band, strap
  2. zone

References

  • KangXi: page 333, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8950
  • Dae Jaweon: page 639, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 742, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5E36

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*taːds
*taːds, *dads
*taːds
*rtʰaːds, *tʰads, *deːds
*dads
*tʰjads, *tʰjalʔ
*teːds
*teːds
*teːds, *deːds, *deːd
*teːds
*tʰeːds, *hleːds
*deːds
*deːds, *deːd
*deːd
*teːds

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (25)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tajH/
Li
Rong
/tɑiH/
Wang
Li
/tɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dài
Middle
Chinese
‹ tajH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.tˤa[t]-s/
English girdle, strap

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1958
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*taːds/

Noun

  1. belt; ribbon; tape
  2. tyre, tire
  3. zone; area; belt
  4. cassette   (Classifier: c)
    錄影 / 录影   lùyǐngdài   video cassette
    / [Cantonese]   teng1daai3-2 [Jyutping]   listen to a(n audio) cassette
    / [Cantonese]   tai2daai3-2 [Jyutping]   watch to a (video) cassette
Compounds

Verb

  1. to take; to bring; to carry
  2. to assist one in doing something
  3. bear; have; with
  4. lead; head

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(dae) (hangeul , revised dae, McCune-Reischauer tae)

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(đai, đái, đới, đáy)

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