氐

氐 (Kangxi radical 83, 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹心一 (HPM) or 竹女心戈 (HVPI), four-corner 7274₀, composition ⿱氏丶(G) or ⿱氏一(HTJK))

As a component of complex characters, may have sense of “down, low” from the bowing, stooping figure, as in 低 and 底; compare more abstract 下.

• 低, 呧, 坻, 岻, 弤, 彽, 怟, 抵, 泜, 阺, 㫝, 柢, 牴, 胝, 眡, 砥, 祗, 秪, 袛, 羝, 䑛, 蚳, 觝, 詆(诋), 貾(𰷢), 䟡, 軧(𰺀), 䩚, 䬫(𬲮), 骶
• 䢑, 趆, 邸, 㪆, 㲳, 鴟(鸱), 奃, 茋, 䍕, 厎, 底, 疷

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 597, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17027
• Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2130, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C10

Pictogram (象形): 氏 (“clan; bowing figure”) + 一, hence 氏 with an empty circle (then a line, today either a line or a point) underneath: perhaps a bowing figure depicted while sowing a field or the root of a tree (see 柢) with a mark at the bottom.

氐

1. Di (ethnic group)
2. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Root (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 低 (dī, “to lower; to bow”).
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 低 (dī, “cheap; inexpensive”).

氐

1. (literary) Original form of 柢 (dǐ, “root of a tree”).
2. (literary) Original form of 柢 (dǐ, “basis; fundamental”).
3. (literary) Original form of 抵 (dǐ, “to reach; to arrive”).
4. (literary) Original form of 抵 (dǐ, “to match; to be equal to”).

氐

1. only used in 氐池 (“an ancient county”)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02110
• “氐”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Di (ancient ethnic group in western China)

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC tej, “Di; Root mansion”):

• Go-on: だい (dai)
• Kan-on: たい (tai)、てい (tei)

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC trij, “basis, fundamental”):

• Go-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kun: ふもと (fumoto, 氐)

• 氐宿(ともぼし) (Tomoboshi)

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC tej), compare modern Mandarin 氐 (dī).

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨te⟩.

• (Tokyo) てー [téꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [te̞ː]

氐(てい) • (Tei) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Root, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions

   Synonyms: 氐宿 (Teishū, Tei-shuku), とも星 (Tomoboshi)

   Hypernyms: 二十八宿, 青竜

2. (historical) Di: an ancient ethnic group in western China

   Hypernym: 五胡 (Goko)

• てんびん座(ざ) (Tenbin-za, “Libra”)

氐 (eum 저 (jeo))

1. foundation; basis; origin

氐: Hán Nôm readings: đê

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