池

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

池 (radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水心木 (EPD), four-corner 3411₂, composition ⿰氵也)

Derived charactersEdit

𠲨, 𨦥, 𪢏, 𩶴, 𫇻, 筂, 𦈳

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 606, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17141
Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1555, character 3
Unihan data for U+6C60

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		池

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 池
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	l̥ʰaːl, l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	l'aːl, l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	ɦljaːl, hljal, *hljals
虵	ɦljal, laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	l̥ʰalʔ, l'alʔ, *lal
肔	l̥ʰalʔ, lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	l'alʔ, hljalʔ
施	hljal, hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	lel, lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	lal, lalʔ
酏	lal, lalʔ
匜	lal, lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	lals, ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːl, *l'al): semantic 氵 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Etymology 1Edit

Perhaps a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *lii (“pool; lake; pond”), whence Mizo li (“quiet, deep pool”) (STEDT).

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chí (chi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄔˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀
Jin (Wiktionary): ci¹
Min Dong (BUC): diè / dò̤
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): tî

(Teochew, Peng'im): di⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: chí
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chy
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chíh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: ci¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sʰz̩¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: diè / dò̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tie⁵³/, /to⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî
  - Tâi-lô: tî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ti²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ti²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ti²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: di⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: zr (T3)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiᴇ/

Rime
Character	池
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直離切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡje/
Wang Li	/ȡǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.lraj/

(Zhengzhang): /*l'al/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	池
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ drje ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.lraj/
English	pool (n.)
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	池
Reading #	2/2
No.	14779
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	馳
Old Chinese	/*l'al/

DefinitionsEdit

池

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 池

乾電池／干电池 (gāndiànchí)
他瑪羅池／他玛罗池
伏打電池／伏打电池
光電池／光电池
劍池／剑池
化糞池／化粪池 (huàfènchí)
印池
呼倫池／呼伦池
咸池
噴水池／喷水池 (pēnshuǐchí)
城池 (chéngchí)
堅城深池／坚城深池
墨水池 (mòshuǐchí)
墨池筆塚／墨池笔冢
天池 (tiānchí)
天池埡／天池垭 (Tiānchíyà)
太液池 (Tàiyèchí)
太陽電池／太阳电池 (tàiyáng diànchí)
富池 (Fùchí)
尹霍夫池
差池 (chāchí)
巴油池
廟小妖風大，池淺王八多／庙小妖风大，池浅王八多 (miào xiǎo yāofēng dà, chí qiǎn wángbā duō)
弄兵潢池
揮翰臨池／挥翰临池
昆明池
昆池劫灰
暈池／晕池
曲江池
東門之池／东门之池
樂池／乐池
殃及池魚／殃及池鱼 (yāngjíchíyú)
水池 (shuǐchí)
池上 (Chíshàng)
池中物
池中蛟龍／池中蛟龙
池坊流
池堂
池塘 (chítáng)

終池／终池 (zhōngchí)
翰池
臨池／临池
臨池學書／临池学书
舞池 (wǔchí)
茅池
華池／华池
蓄水池 (xùshuǐchí)
蓄電池／蓄电池 (xùdiànchí)
蓮池／莲池
藕池 (Ǒuchí)
血汙池／血污池
裝池／装池
解池
記池／记池 (kì-tî) (Min Nan)
跪池
跳水池
配水池
酒池
酒池肉林 (jiǔchíròulín)
金城湯池／金城汤池 (jīnchéngtāngchí)
陂池 (bēichí)
陳池／陈池 (Chénchí)
難越雷池／难越雷池
雲池／云池 (Yúnchí)
雷池 (léichí)
電池／电池 (diànchí)
非池中物 (fēichízhōngwù)
駕返瑤池／驾返瑶池
高城深池
魚池／鱼池 (yúchí)
魚池鄉／鱼池乡
鳳凰池／凤凰池
鳳池／凤池
鵝池／鹅池
鹼性電池／碱性电池
鹽池／盐池 (yánchí)
黃池／黄池
龍池／龙池

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuó (tuo²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): to⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˊ
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: two
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰwɔ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: to⁴
  - Yale: tòh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: to⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: to⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː²¹/

Middle Chinese: /dɑ/

Rime
Character	池
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒河切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/da/
Li Rong	/dɑ/
Wang Li	/dɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuó

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*l'aːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	池
Reading #	1/2
No.	14769
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	駝
Old Chinese	/*l'aːl/

DefinitionsEdit

池

Only used in 虖池 (“Hutuo River”).

ReferencesEdit

“池”, 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–

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

池

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

lake, moat
object used for storage

ReadingsEdit

Go-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}; だ (da)
Kan-on: ち (chi, Jōyō); た (ta)
Kun: いけ (ike, 池, Jōyō)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term
池
いけ Grade: 2
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 池 – see the following entry.

【いけ】	[noun] a pond (small lake or pool) [noun] a pool (small amount of liquid in a surface) [noun] (calligraphy) part of an inkstone where water is stored [proper noun] a surname