妒忌

Chinese

		jealous	avoid as taboo; jealous
trad. (妒忌)		妒	忌
simp. #(妒忌)		妒	忌
anagram		忌妒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dùjì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˋ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou³ gei⁶
• Gan (Wiktionary): du⁴ ji
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tò͘-kī / tò͘-khī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dùjì → dùji (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˋ ㄐㄧˋ → ㄉㄨˋ ˙ㄐㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dùji̊
    • Wade–Giles: tu⁴-chi⁵
    • Yale: dù-ji
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duh.jih
    • Palladius: дуцзи (duczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi⁵¹/ → /tu⁵¹ d͡ʑ̥i¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou³ gei⁶
    • Yale: dou geih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou³ gei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou³ géi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³³ kei̯²²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: du⁴ ji
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵ t͡ɕi²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò͘-kī
    • Tâi-lô: tòo-kī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorki
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ ki⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tɔ²¹⁻⁵³ ki²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tò͘-khī
    • Tâi-lô: tòo-khī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorqi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ kʰi³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ kʰi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tuH giH

Rime
Character	妒	忌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	當故切	渠記切
Baxter	tuH	giH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuoH/	/ɡɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/tuoH/	/ɡɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/toH/	/ɡieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɔH/	/gɨH/
Li Rong	/toH/	/ɡiəH/
Wang Li	/tuH/	/ɡĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuoH/	/giH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dù	jì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou3	gei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤak-s  m-k(r)ək-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tqaːs  ɡɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	妒	忌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dù	jì
Middle Chinese	‹ tuH ›	‹ giH ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁak-s/	/*m-k(r)ək-s/
English	jealous	warn; avoid
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	妒	忌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	5291	5774
Phonetic component	戸	己
Rime group	魚	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	妒	忌
Old Chinese	/*tqaːs/	/*ɡɯs/

Verb

妒忌

1. to be jealous; to envy; to be envious

Synonyms

• 吃味 (chīwèi) (regional)
• 妒嫉 (dùjí)
• 妒恨 (dùhèn) (literary)
• 媢嫉 (màojí) (literary)
• 嫉妒 (jídù)
• 忌 (jì)
• 忌垢 (ji⁴ gou⁴) (Sichuanese)
• 忌妒 (jìdù)
• 怨妒 (Hokkien)
• 惡妒／恶妒 (Hokkien)
• 欣羨／欣羡 (xīnxiàn) (literary or Min Nan)
• 歆羨／歆羡 (xīnxiàn) (literary or Min Nan)
• 目空刺 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 目空赤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 目紅／目红 (Xiamen Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 目赤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 眼氣／眼气 (nie² qi³) (Jin)
• 眼紅／眼红 (yǎnhóng)
• 紅目／红目 (Hokkien)
• 羨慕／羡慕 (xiànmù)
• 葡萄 (pou⁴ tou⁴) (Cantonese, Hong Kong, neologism)
• 豔羨／艳羡 (yànxiàn) (formal)
• 赤狗目 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 赤目 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 妒忌心 (dùjìxīn)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (妒忌):

• → Vietnamese: đố kị (妒忌)