怠

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 台 + semantic 心

Han character

怠 (radical 61 心+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈口心 (IRP), X戈口心 (XIRP), four-corner 2333₆, composition ⿱台心)

1. idle, remiss, negligent
2. neglect

References

• KangXi: page 381, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10469
• Dae Jaweon: page 709, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2283, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6020

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Cantonese

Hanzi

怠 (Yale doi6, toi5)

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Japanese

Kanji

怠 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: たい (tai)
• Kun: おこたる (okotaru), なまける (namakeru)

Compounds

• 怠け者
• 懈怠

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Korean

Hanja

怠 (hangeul 태, revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

怠 (pinyin dài (dai4), Wade-Giles tai⁴)

Compounds

• 怠工
• 怠慢
• 懈怠