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待

待

Translingual

Han character

待 (radical 60 彳+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土木戈 (HOGDI), four-corner 24241, composition ⿰彳寺)

References

  • KangXi: page 366, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10085
  • Dae Jaweon: page 686, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 818, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5F85

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 待

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (寺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
等 *tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ
待 *dɯːʔ
寺 *ljɯs
持 *l'ɯ
峙 *dɯʔ
痔 *dɯʔ
跱 *dɯʔ
歭 *dɯʔ
洔 *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ
畤 *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ
秲 *dɯʔ, *djɯs
庤 *dɯʔ
時 *djɯ
鰣 *djɯ
塒 *djɯ
蒔 *djɯ, *djɯs
榯 *djɯ
恃 *djɯʔ
侍 *djɯs
詩 *hljɯ
邿 *hljɯ
特 *dɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *dɯːʔ) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 寺 ‎(OC *ljɯs).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 待
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒亥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəjX/
Li
Rong		 /dᴀiX/
Wang
Li		 /dɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 待
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dojX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˤəʔ/
English wait on; depend on

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 待
Reading # 1/1
No. 12029
Phonetic
component		 寺
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 駘
Old
Chinese		 /*dɯːʔ/

Definitions

待

  1. to treat; to entertain; to receive
  2. to wait

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

待

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. wait

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

待 • ‎(dae) (hangeul 대)

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Vietnamese

Han character

待 (đãi, đảy, đậy, đẩy, đẫy, đợi, rãi, dợi, đất, được)

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