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池

池

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

池 (radical 85 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水心木 (EPD), four-corner 34112, composition ⿰氵也)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 606, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17141
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1555, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6C60

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 池

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 池
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
他 *l̥ʰaːl
拖 *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞 *l'aːl
池 *l'aːl, *l'al
灺 *ljalʔ
鍦 *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵 *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也 *laːlʔ
忚 *hleːl
髢 *l'eːls
杝 *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔 *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳 *l'al
阤 *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施 *hljal, *hljals
絁 *hljal
葹 *hljal
弛 *hljalʔ
箷 *lal
衪 *lel, *lalʔ
暆 *lel
迆 *lal, *lalʔ
酏 *lal, *lalʔ
匜 *lal, *lalʔ
迤 *lalʔ
扡 *lalʔ
崺 *lalʔ
貤 *lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地 *l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːl, *l'al) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 也 ‎(OC *laːlʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 池 池
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 支 (13) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III I
Fanqie 直離切 徒河切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiᴇ/ /dɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚiɛ/ /dɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiɛ/ /dɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖjiə̆/ /da/
Li
Rong		 /ȡje/ /dɑ/
Wang
Li		 /ȡǐe/ /dɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱie̯/ /dʱɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chí tuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 池
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.lraj/
English pool (n.)

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 池 池
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14769 14779
Phonetic
component		 也 也
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 駝 馳
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːl/ /*l'al/

Definitions

池

  1. pool; pond
  2. moat
  3. cistern
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

池

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

池 ‎(hiragana いけ, romaji ike)

  1. pond, small lake, pool
    池 (いけ)を乾 (ほ)す
    ike o hosu
    drain a pond

Korean

Hanja

池 • ‎(ji, ta) (hangeul 지, 타, revised ji, ta, McCune-Reischauer chi, t'a, Yale ci, tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

池 (trì, đìa, trầy, trề, tri, bǎng)

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