娣
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
娣 (radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女金弓竹 (VCNH), four-corner 48427, composition ⿰女弟)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 263, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6329
- Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1053, character 14
- Unihan data for U+5A23
ChineseEdit
| simp. and trad. |
娣 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph originEdit
| Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 梯 | *tʰiːl |
| 睇 | *tʰiːl, *diːls |
| 涕 | *tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls |
| 挮 | *tʰiːlʔ |
| 鬀 | *tʰiːls, *diːls |
| 剃 | *tʰiːls |
| 綈 | *diːl |
| 蕛 | *diːl |
| 稊 | *diːl |
| 苐 | *diːl |
| 鵜 | *diːl |
| 銻 | *diːl |
| 鮷 | *diːl |
| 罤 | *diːl |
| 弟 | *diːlʔ, *diːls |
| 娣 | *diːlʔ, *diːls |
| 悌 | *diːlʔ, *diːls |
| 第 | *diːls |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *diːlʔ, *diːls): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “young family member”).
EtymologyEdit
Same word as 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “younger brother”).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
娣
- † younger of two women married to a man; (in general) concubine of a man
- † younger sister
- † wife of husband's younger brother
- † mother's younger sister
- A surname.
- Used in the given name of a girl to symbolize the hope that she will have a younger brother.
CompoundsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “娣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–