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睇

睇

Translingual

Han character

睇 (radical 109 目+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月山金弓竹 (BUCNH), four-corner 68027)

References

  • KangXi: page 808, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23360
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1223, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2492, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+7747

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 睇
alt. forms 眱
睼
𥄿

Etymology

Compare Vietnamese thấy ‎(“to see, to look, to find, to feel”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 睇 睇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 土雞切 特計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰei/ /deiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰei/ /deiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛi/ /dɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛj/ /dɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /tʰei/ /deiH/
Wang
Li		 /tʰiei/ /dieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰiei/ /dʱieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tī dì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 睇 睇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dì tī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dejH › ‹ thej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤəj-s/ /*l̥ˤ[ə]j/ (~ *l̥ˤ[ə]jʔ)
English look at look at

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 睇 睇
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2280 2300
Phonetic
component		 弟 弟
Rime
group		 脂 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 梯 第
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰiːl/ /*diːls/

Definitions

睇

  1. † to glance sideways
  2. † to look; to stare
  3. (Cantonese, Teochew)
    1. to look; to see; to view; to watch
      睇電視 / 睇电视 [Cantonese]  ―  tai2 din6 si6 [Jyutping]  ―  to watch TV
    2. to look after; to care for
      睇住 [Cantonese]  ―  tai2 zyu6 [Jyutping]  ―  to keep an eye on
    3. to believe; to think
      我睇都係凍過水㗎喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      我睇都系冻过水㗎喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      Ngo5tai2 dou1 hai6 dung1 gwo3 seoi2 gaa3 laa3. [Jyutping]
      I think things aren't looking good.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 看 (“to look”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 視
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 看
Mandarin Beijing 看、瞧、瞅
Taiwan 看
Jinan 看
Xi'an 看
Wuhan 看、睄、瞄
Chengdu 看、𧢭
Yangzhou 看、望
Hefei 看、望
Cantonese Guangzhou 睇、望
Hong Kong 睇、望
Taishan 睇、望
Yangjiang 看、睇、瞄
Gan Nanchang 看、相
Hakka Meixian 看、睞
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 看
Liudui (S. Sixian) 看
Hsinchu (Hailu) 看
Dongshi (Dabu) 看
Zhuolan (Raoping) 看
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 看
Jin Taiyuan 看、瞭
Min Bei Jian'ou 覷
Min Dong Fuzhou 看、覷
Min Nan Quanzhou 看
Xiamen 看
Zhangzhou 看
Taipei 看
Chaozhou 睇
Shantou 睇
Wu Suzhou 看、望
Wenzhou 眙、張
Xiang Changsha 看
Shuangfeng 看、相

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

睇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

睇 • ‎(je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune-Reischauer che, Yale cey)

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