See also:
U+59EA, 姪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59EA

[U+59E9]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+59EB]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 38, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女一戈土 (VMIG), four-corner 41414, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 260, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6226
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1043, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+59EA

Chinese edit

trad. /
simp.
alternative forms

𡥺
 
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Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *diːɡ, *diɡ) : semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *tjiɡs).

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-ləj (grandchild; nephew) + *-t (nominalizing final). Cognate with Burmese မြေး (mre:, grandchild).

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • ti̍t - vernacular;
    • chit - literary.
Note:
  • diag8 - Shantou;
  • diêg8 - Chaozhou.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃz̩⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sz̩²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sz̩³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sz̩²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩ʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡sz̩³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəʔ¹/
Suzhou /zəʔ³/
Hangzhou /d͡zəʔ²/
Wenzhou /d͡zai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɨʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰət̚⁵/
Taoyuan /tʃʰït̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɐt̚²/
Nanning /t͡sɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tit̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tiʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ti²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tiak̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /t͡sit̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (11) (7)
Final () (49) (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III IV
Fanqie
Baxter drit det
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖˠiɪt̚/ /det̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖᵚit̚/ /det̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiet̚/ /dɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖjit̚/ /dɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/ȡjĕt̚/ /det̚/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭĕt̚/ /diet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯ĕt̚/ /dʱiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhí dié
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zat6 dit6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17352 17367
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*diːɡ/ /*diɡ/

Definitions edit

  1. fraternal nephew or niece (originally only of a woman, but also of a man after the Jìn dynasty)
  2. child of a (male) friend in the same generation
  3. Used to call oneself before someone in one's father's generation.

Synonyms edit

Antonyms edit

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
めい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/me1hi/: [mepi] → [meɸi] → [mewi] → [mei]. Initial /me/ is cognate with (me1, female).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(めい) (meiめひ (mefi)?

  1. the daughter of one's sibling; a niece

Antonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(jil, jeol) (hangeul , , revised jil, jeol, McCune–Reischauer chil, chŏl)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: đẹt

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