氐

氐 (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(HTJ) or ⿹氏一(K))

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, 厎, 底, 抵, 邸, 骶

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

Pictogram (象形) : 氏 (“(bowing figure)”) + 一 – as with 氏, but with a line underneath: a bowing figure standing on the ground.

氐

1. Di (ethnic group)
2. (astronomy) Root (Chinese constellation)

氐

1. (literary) basis; fundamental

• 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), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Di (ancient ethnic group in western China)

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

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

From Middle Chinese 氐 (MC *ʈiɪ, “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 ʈˠiɪ), compare modern Mandarin 氐 (dī).

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

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) て​ー [téꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [te̞ː]

氐 (hiragana てい, rōmaji Tei)

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

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

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

   Hypernym: 五胡 (Goko)

• てんびん座 (ざ) (Tenbin-za, “Libra”)

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

1. the foundation, the basis, the origin

氐 (đê)

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