喋 · dié
nag; chatter, babble, twitter
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
nag; chatter, babble, twitter
- Mandarin
- dié
- Cantonese
- dip6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 喋 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
チョウ トウ キョウ ジョウ ドウ しゃべるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 첩
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+558B
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 喋
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- dep · 徒協 反切 · #3830
- Middle Chinese
- tep · 丁愜 反切 · #3834
- Middle Chinese
- draep · 丈甲 反切 · #3853
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 20042 · dep = 咸開四入添定 · tep = 咸開四入添端 · draep = 咸開二入銜澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dié
- kCantonese
- dip6
- kDefinition
- nag; chatter, babble, twitter
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 30.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5128
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- dié,zhá,qiè 10649.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dié 0251.060 · zhá 1447.170
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dié 076.100 · zhá 462.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dié粵dip6 zhá粵zaap3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 徒協 丁愜 丈甲
- Kangxi positions
- 0198.010
- Guangyun positions
- 541.40 542.45 544.32
- Cangjie
- RPTD
- Four-corner
- 6409.4