砥
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Translingual
Han character
砥 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口竹心一 (MRHPM) or 一口竹女戈 (MRHVI), four-corner 12640, composition ⿰石氐)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 828, character 37
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24093
- Dae Jaweon: page 1243, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2424, character 14
- Unihan data for U+7825
Chinese
| trad. | 砥 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 砥 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (氐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 低 | *tiːl |
| 氐 | *tiːl, *til |
| 袛 | *tiːl |
| 羝 | *tiːl |
| 眡 | *tiːl, *djilʔ |
| 岻 | *tiːl, *dil |
| 奃 | *tiːl |
| 趆 | *tiːl, *tiːls |
| 柢 | *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls |
| 邸 | *tiːlʔ |
| 底 | *tiːlʔ |
| 詆 | *tiːlʔ, *diːl |
| 坻 | *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil |
| 抵 | *tiːlʔ |
| 牴 | *tiːlʔ |
| 觝 | *tiːlʔ |
| 弤 | *tiːlʔ |
| 軧 | *tiːlʔ |
| 骶 | *tiːls |
| 砥 | *tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils |
| 胝 | *til |
| 疷 | *til |
| 秪 | *til |
| 泜 | *dil |
| 蚳 | *dil |
| 彽 | *dil |
| 阺 | *dil |
| 貾 | *dil |
| 祗 | *tjil |
| 厎 | *tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 茋 | *tjilʔ |
| 鴟 | *tʰjil |
| 汦 | *kjeʔ, *tjil |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils): semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dǐ
- Wade–Giles: ti3
- Yale: dǐ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dii
- Palladius: ди (di)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, obsolete)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
- Wade–Giles: chih3
- Yale: jř
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
- Palladius: чжи (čži)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: dai2 / zi1 / zi2
- Yale: dái / jī / jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: dai2 / dzi1 / dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: dei2 / ji1 / ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɐi̯³⁵/, /t͡siː⁵⁵/, /t͡siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
Note:
- té - literary;
- tí - vernacular.
- Middle Chinese: tsyij, tsyeX, tsyijX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*tijʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*tjelʔ/, /*tjil/, /*tjilʔ/, /*tjils/
Definitions
砥
- (literary) fine-grained whetstone
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to grind; to polish
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to temper oneself; to steel oneself
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) smooth; level; even
Compounds
See also
References
- “砥”, 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–
Japanese
Kanji
砥
- whetstone, grindstone
Readings
- Go-on: し (shi)、たい (tai)
- Kan-on: し (shi)、てい (tei)
- Kun: と (to, 砥)、とぐ (togu, 砥ぐ)、といし (toishi, 砥)、みがく (migaku, 砥く)、たいらにする (tairanisuru, 砥にする)
Korean
Hanja
砥 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)
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