柢

柢	U+67E2, 柢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67E2

← 柡
[U+67E1]

CJK Unified Ideographs

柣 →
[U+67E3]

Translingual

Han character

柢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹心一 (DHPM) or 木竹女戈 (DHVI), four-corner 4294₀, composition ⿰木氐)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 520, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14640
Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1186, character 8
Unihan data for U+67E2

Chinese

trad.		柢
simp. ^#		柢

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

Etymology

Cognate with 低 (OC *tiːl, “to lower; lower”), 底 (OC *tiːlʔ, “bottom”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dǐ (di³)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dai²

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/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dai²
  - Yale: dái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: dei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯³⁵/

Middle Chinese: tej, tejX, tejH

Rime
Character	柢	柢	柢
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV	IV
Fanqie	都奚切	都禮切	都計切
Baxter	tej	tejX	tejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tei/	/tei^X/	/tei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/tei/	/tei^X/	/tei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛi/	/tɛi^X/	/tɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛj/	/tɛj^X/	/tɛj^H/
Li Rong	/tei/	/tei^X/	/tei^H/
Wang Li	/tiei/	/tiei^X/	/tiei^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tiei/	/tiei^X/	/tiei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dī	dǐ	dì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dai¹	dai²	dai³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*tiːl/, /*tiːlʔ/, /*tiːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	柢	柢	柢
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	2242	2250	2253
Phonetic component	氐	氐	氐
Rime group	脂	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	低	邸	帝
Old Chinese	/*tiːl/	/*tiːlʔ/	/*tiːls/

Definitions

柢

root (of a tree)
origin; foundation

Compounds

根柢 (gēndǐ)
根深柢固 (gēnshēndǐgù)
歸根究柢 / 归根究柢 (guīgēnjiūdǐ)
歸根結柢 / 归根结柢 (guīgēnjiédǐ)
深根固柢
追根究柢 (zhuīgēnjiūdǐ)

Japanese

Kanji

柢

(Hyōgai kanji)

root
founded on

Readings

On (unclassified): てい (tei)
Kun: ね (ne)

Compounds

根柢(こんてい) (kontei)

Korean

Hanja

柢 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

root
bottom, base

Vietnamese

Han character

柢: Hán Nôm readings: đề, đế, để

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