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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月戈口 (BIR), four-corner 73260, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 978, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29369
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1429, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2065, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+80CE

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰɯː
*l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
*l̥ʰɯː
*l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
*l̥ʰɯː
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯː, *l'i
*l'ɯː
*l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
*l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
*l'ɯːʔ
*hlɯː
*lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
*slɯʔ
*ljɯ
*ljɯʔ
*l̥ʰɯ
*l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
*l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
*l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
*hljɯʔ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*lɯ
*li

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰəi/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰəj/
Li
Rong
/tʰᴀi/
Wang
Li
/tʰɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tāi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tāi
Middle
Chinese
‹ thoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˤə/
English fetus

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12259
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰɯː/

Noun

  1. fetus; unborn child

Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
たい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (thoj).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana たい, romaji tai)

  1. womb

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(tae) (hangeul , revised tae, McCune-Reischauer t'ae, Yale thay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thai)

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