See also:
U+984C, 題
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-984C

[U+984B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+984D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 181, 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日人一月金 (AOMBC), four-corner 61808, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𢖤, 𤄭, 𣠢,

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1406, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43584
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1924, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4381, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+984C

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *deː, *deːs): phonetic (OC *djeʔ) + semantic (head) – “forehead”.

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (7)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/dei/
Pan
Wuyun
/dei/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛj/
Li
Rong
/dei/
Wang
Li
/diei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tai4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 11623
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*deː/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) forehead
  2. title
  3. question; quiz; problem (Classifier: m;  c mn-t)
      ―  mìng  ―  to set a question
      ―  jiě  ―  to solve exam questions or exercise problems
      ―  shuā  ―  to do a large number of exam questions
    送命送命  ―  sòngmìng  ―  brutal question
  4. Classifier for questions. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  5. to sign; to write; to inscribe
      ―  míng  ―  to sign one's name
      ―    ―  to write words of commemoration
  6. alternative form of (to mention)
  7. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (7)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter dejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/deiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/deiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/dɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dɛjH/
Li
Rong
/deiH/
Wang
Li
/dieiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/dʱieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dai6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 11635
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*deːs/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (to look at; to scrutinize)
  2. (historical dictionaries only) alternative form of (, small basin)

References

  • ”, 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–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 152.

Japanese

Alternative forms

  • (theme): (だい) (o-dai)

Kanji

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. (obsolete) forehead
  2. title
  3. question
  4. issue

Readings

  • Go-on: だい (dai, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: てい (tei)
  • Kun: ひたい (hitai, )ひたひ (fitafi, , historical)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
だい
Grade: 3
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC dej|dejH).

Pronunciation

Noun

(だい) • (dai

  1. title
  2. theme
    今回(こんかい)(だい) []
    konkai no o-dai wa []
    The theme/topic this time is []
  3. issue
  4. problem

Counter

(だい) • (-dai

  1. questions on a test

Suffix

(だい) • (-dai

  1. question on a test
  2. (calligraphy) calligraphy by []

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 제목 (jemok je))

  1. hanja form? of (title)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đề

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