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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈心心 (IPP), four-corner 21331, composition)

  1. manner, bearing, attitude

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 398, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11052
  • Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2335, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+614B

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*n̥ʰɯːs
*nɯː, *nɯːs, *nɯːŋ, *nɯːŋʔ
*nɯːs
*nɯːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *n̥ʰɯːs) : phonetic  (OC *nɯː, *nɯːs, *nɯːŋ, *nɯːŋʔ) + semantic  (heart) – one’s heart-felt attitude.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰəjH/
Li
Rong
/tʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/tʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tài
Middle
Chinese
‹ thojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*n̥ˤə-s/
English bearing, manner

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. 9410
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*n̥ʰɯːs/

Definitions

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Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana たい, romaji tai)

  1. (grammar) voice - a particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.

Suffix

(hiragana たい, romaji -tai)

  1. (grammar) voice, diathesis

Korean

Hanja

(tae) (hangeul , revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

  1. manner, bearing, attitude

Vietnamese

Han character

(thái, thói)

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