底子

Chinese

		background; bottom; base background; bottom; base; (possessive part.); (subor. part.)	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (底子)		底	子
simp. #(底子)		底	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǐzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˇ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dai² zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǐzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˇ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǐzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: ti³-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: dǐ-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dii.tzy
    • Palladius: дицзы (diczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti²¹⁴ d͡z̥z̩⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dai² zi²
    • Yale: dái jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dai² dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dei² ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

底子

1. bottom; underneath; underside; base
2. foundation
3. rough draft; sketch; outline
4. original text (of a book, publication, etc.); source
5. copy kept as a record
6. leftover material; remnant; remainder; last of something
7. sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
8. physique; constitution
9. details; ins and outs; inside information
10. ground; background; foundation

Synonyms

• (bottom): 底 (dǐ)
• (foundation): 根基 (gēnjī), 基礎／基础 (jīchǔ), 基業／基业 (jīyè), (Hokkien) 底置
• (rough draft):

• 初稿 (chūgǎo)
• 文稿 (wéngǎo)
• 稿 (gǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
• 稿子 (gǎozi)
• 草底 (cǎodǐ) (colloquial)
• 草稿 (cǎogǎo)

 

• (original text): 底本 (dǐběn)
• (sole):

Dialectal synonyms of 鞋底 (“sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鞋底, 鞋底子
Mandarin	Beijing	鞋底兒
	Taiwan	鞋底
	Harbin	鞋底兒
	Yantai (Muping)	鞋底兒, 鞋底子
	Jinan	鞋底子, 鞋底
	Luoyang	鞋底兒
	Wanrong	鞋底
	Xi'an	鞋底子
	Yinchuan	鞋底, 鞋底子
	Lanzhou	鞋底子
	Xining	鞋底底
	Ürümqi	鞋底子
	Wuhan	鞋底子, 鞋底
	Chengdu	鞋底子, 鞋底, 鞋底底, 鞋底板兒
	Guiyang	鞋底
	Liuzhou	鞋底
	Xuzhou	鞋底兒, 鞋底子, 鞋底
	Yangzhou	鞋底
	Nanjing	鞋底
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鞋底
	Hong Kong	鞋底
	Dongguan	鞋底
Gan	Nanchang	鞋底子, 鞋底
	Lichuan	鞋底
	Pingxiang	鞋底
Hakka	Meixian	鞋底
	Yudu	鞋底
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鞋底
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鞋底
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鞋底
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鞋底
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鞋底
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鞋底
Huizhou	Jixi	鞋底
Jin	Taiyuan	鞋底子
	Xinzhou	鞋底
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鞋底
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鞋底
Southern Min	Tainan	鞋底
	Haikou	鞋底
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	鞋底
Wu	Shanghai	鞋底
	Shanghai (Chongming)	鞋底
	Suzhou	鞋底
	Danyang	鞋底
	Hangzhou	鞋底兒
	Ningbo	鞋底
	Wenzhou	鞋底
	Jinhua	鞋底
Xiang	Changsha	鞋底子, 鞋底
	Loudi	鞋底公

• (physique): 體質／体质 (tǐzhì)
• (details):

• 內幕／内幕 (nèimù)
• 內情／内情 (nèiqíng)
• 底細／底细 (dǐxì)
• 底蘊／底蕴 (dǐyùn)
• 路數／路数 (lùshù)
• 頭腦／头脑 (tóunǎo) (obsolete)