祭

EtymologyEdit

Ideogrammic compound (會意): ⺼ (“meat”) + 手 (“hand”) + 示 (“altar, ceremony”) – the hand offers a piece of meat at the altar during a ceremony.

Note that the top is not 癶. The left part is ⺼ twisted to the left (compare 將, 然). The right part (which looks like 又 without the tail to the left) actually a simplified form of hand, which was written originally like 屮 (three fingers on the arm), with the tail tilted to the right and the leftmost fingers disappearing).

In Japanese handwriting, the diagonals of the upper right component cross: the short upper-right to lower-left stroke crosses the long upper-left to lower-right stroke, rather than abutting there.

Han characterEdit

祭 (radical 113 示+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月人一一火 (BOMMF), four-corner 2790₁)

1. make offerings to, sacrifice to, worship
2. ceremonial

Derived charactersEdit

• 瘵, 㡜, 際, 察, 蔡, 穄
• Simplification: 示, as part of some compounds (際 → 际)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 843, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24700
• Dae Jaweon: page 1263, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2397, character 7
• Unihan data for U+796D

HanziEdit

祭 (Jyutping zai3, Yale jai3)

KanjiEdit

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: まつる (matsuru), まつり (matsuri)

HanjaEdit

祭 (hangeul 제, 채 (je, chae), revised je, chae, McCune-Reischauer che, ch'ae, Yale cey, chay)

HanziEdit

祭 (Pinyin jì (ji4), Wade-Giles chi⁴)

HanziEdit

祭 (POJ chè (che³), TLPA tsè (tse³))

ReferencesEdit

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

Han characterEdit

祭 (tế)