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蝶

蝶

Translingual

Han character

蝶 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中戈心廿木 (LIPTD), four-corner 54194, composition ⿰虫枼)

  1. butterfly

References

  • KangXi: page 1091, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33333
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1556, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2868, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8776

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蝶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (世) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貰 *ɦljebs, *hljebs
跇 *l̥ʰebs, *lebs
迣 *ʔljebs
世 *hljebs
泄 *lebs, *sled
枻 *lebs
詍 *lebs
靾 *lebs
袣 *lebs
抴 *lebs, *led
呭 *lebs
勩 *lebs, *libs
屜 *l̥ʰeːbs
鰈 *l̥ʰaːb, *l'eːb
渫 *zreːb, *sled
煠 *zreːb, *l̥ʰeb, *leb
喋 *rlaːb, *ʔl'eːb, *l'eːb
鞢 *rlaːb, *sleːb
殜 *l'eb, *leb, *lab
葉 *hljeb, *leb
弽 *hljeb, *hleːb
韘 *hljeb, *sleːb
枼 *leb
楪 *leb
揲 *leb, *l'eːb, *ɦljed
鍱 *leb
偞 *leb, *hleːb
蝶 *l̥ʰeːb, *l'eːb
牒 *l'eːb
蹀 *l'eːb
諜 *l'eːb
堞 *l'eːb
牃 *l'eːb
褋 *l'eːb
惵 *l'eːb
碟 *l'eːb
屧 *sleːb
屟 *sleːb
紲 *sled
齛 *sled
疶 *sled
緤 *sled
媟 *sled

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蝶 蝶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 怗 (158) 怗 (158)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 他協切 徒協切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɛp̚/ /dɛp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛp̚/ /dɛp̚/
Li
Rong		 /tʰep̚/ /dep̚/
Wang
Li		 /tʰiep̚/ /diep̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰiep̚/ /dʱiep̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tie dié
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蝶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dié
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dep ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤep/
English hu-dep: butterfly

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 蝶 蝶
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11570 11580
Phonetic
component		 世 世
Rime
group		 盍 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 怗 牒
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰeːb/ /*l'eːb/
Notes 見漢詩

Definitions

蝶

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References

Japanese

Etymology

tepu > tefu > *tewu > teu > /tyoː/ [choː].

Noun

蝶 ‎(hiragana ちょう, romaji chō, historical hiragana てふ)

  1. butterfly

Kanji

蝶

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

See also

Korean

Hanja

蝶 • ‎(jeop) (hangeul 접, revised jeop, McCune-Reischauer chŏp, Yale cep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蝶 (điệp)

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