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Translingual

Han character

(radical 104 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大人大口 (KOKR), four-corner 00160, composition)

  1. foolish, stupid, dumb, silly

References

  • KangXi: page 774, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22257
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1185, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2681, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+75F4

Chinese

trad. /
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'eds
*l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
*l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'
*ʔl'e
*te
*ʔl'es
*te
*teɡs, *deɡ
*de
*l'
*hliʔ
*l̥ʰɯ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (10)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈʰɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈʰɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶʰie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈʰɨ/
Li
Rong
/ȶʰiə/
Wang
Li
/ȶʰĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶʰi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11505
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰɯ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 一片痴心
  • 似醉如痴
  • 半痴不顛半痴不颠
  • 呢呢痴痴
  • 墨痴
  • 如痴似醉
  • 如痴如夢如痴如梦
  • 如痴如狂
  • 如痴如迷
  • 如痴如醉
  • 如醉如痴 (rúzuìrúchī)
  • 妍皮痴骨
  • 嬌痴娇痴
  • 小黠大痴
  • 情痴
  • 愚痴
  • 懵懂痴呆
  • 撒嬌撒痴撒娇撒痴
  • 撒風撒痴撒风撒痴
  • 書痴书痴
  • 獃痴
  • 男痴
  • 痴人
  • 痴人痴福
  • 痴人說夢痴人说梦
  • 痴倒
  • 痴傻
  • 痴兒痴儿
  • 痴叔
  • 痴呆 (chīdāi)
  • 痴呆懵懂
  • 痴呆症 (chīdāizhèng)
  • 痴姨
  • 痴子
  • 痴心
  • 痴心妄想
  • 痴情 (chīqíng)
  • 痴想
  • 痴掙痴挣
  • 痴漢痴汉 (chīhàn)
  • 痴然如醉
  • 痴物
  • 痴狂
  • 痴獃
  • 痴男怨女
  • 痴痴
  • 痴福
  • 痴笑
  • 痴肥
  • 痴蟲痴虫
  • 痴迷 (chīmí)
  • 痴那
  • 痴鈍痴钝
  • 痴長痴长
  • 痴頑痴顽
  • 痴騃
  • 發痴发痴
  • 白痴
  • 花痴
  • 詅痴符
  • 貪夫痴客贪夫痴客
  • 賣痴獃卖痴獃
  • 音痴 (yīnchī)
  • 風痴风痴

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. stupid
  2. foolish

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
おこ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/woko//oko/

From Old Japanese.[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Adjective

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , -na inflection, hiragana おこ, romaji oko, historical hiragana をこ)

  1. foolish, absurd
  2. indecent, indelicate
Inflection
Usage notes

Historical sources[1][2] show that this term is more often used as an attributive noun, followed by possessive particle (no) when used to modify another noun.

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana おこ, romaji oko, historical hiragana をこ)

  1. foolishness, stupidity
  2. indecency, indelicateness

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
うこ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/woko//uko/

Sound shift from Old Japanese woko.[1] Obsolete.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , -na inflection, hiragana うこ, romaji uko)

  1. (obsolete) foolish, absurd
  2. (obsolete) indecent, indelicate
Inflection

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana うこ, romaji uko)

  1. foolishness, stupidity
  2. indecency, indelicateness

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
しれ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 痴れる (shireru, to become dimwitted, to become stupid).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • 痴れ

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana しれ, romaji shire)

  1. foolishness, stupidity

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (tjiə). Compare modern Mandarin simplified and traditional (chī).

Pronunciation

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana , romaji chi)

  1. foolishness, stupidity
  2. (Buddhism) ignorance, one of the three roots of the vice dharmas

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(chi) (hangeul , revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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