踟

踟	U+8E1F, 踟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E1F

← 踞
[U+8E1E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

踠 →
[U+8E20]

Translingual

Han character

踟 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口一人大口 (RMOKR), four-corner 6610₀, composition ⿰𧾷知)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1228, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37645
Dae Jaweon: page 1700, character 28
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3717, character 2
Unihan data for U+8E1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		踟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
彘	*l'eds
璏	l'eds, ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙	l̥ʰiːs, ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知	*ʔl'e
蜘	*te
智	*ʔl'es
鼅	*te
潪	teɡs, deɡ
踟	*de
雉	*l'iʔ
矢	*hliʔ
痴	*l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *de): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 知 (OC *ʔl'e).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chí (chi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄔˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chí
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chíh
  - Wade–Giles: chʻih²
  - Yale: chŕ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyr
  - Palladius: чи (či)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/

Middle Chinese: drje

Rime
Character	踟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直離切
Baxter	drje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡje/
Wang Li	/ȡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]re/

(Zhengzhang): /*de/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	踟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ drje ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]re/
English	踟躕 *[d]re.[d]ro walk hesitatingly
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	踟
Reading #	1/1
No.	11500
Phonetic component	矢
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	馳
Old Chinese	/*de/

Definitions

踟

to walk back and forth
to hesitate

Compounds

搔首踟躕 / 搔首踟蹰
步踟躕 / 步踟蹰
踟跦
踟蹰 (chíchú)
踟躅
踟躇 (chíchú)
踟躕 / 踟蹰 (chíchú)

Japanese

Kanji

踟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: じ (ji)
Kan-on: ち (chi)

Korean

Hanja

踟 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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