坻 · dǐ
an islet, a rock in a river; an embankment; to stop
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
an islet, a rock in a river; an embankment; to stop
- Mandarin
- dǐ
- Cantonese
- ci4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 坻 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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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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 지
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+577B
- Radical
- 土 · 32
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 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 坻
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 氐 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 氐聲
Line 11390 · ⿰土氐 · 氐聲 · source reference 4800680
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- drij · 直尼 反切 · #155
- Middle Chinese
- tsyeX · 諸氏 反切 · #1200
- Middle Chinese
- tejX · 都禮 反切 · #1397
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1319 · drij = 止開三平脂澄 · tsyeX = 止開三上支章 · tejX = 蟹開四上齊端
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
- dǐ
- kCantonese
- ci4
- kDefinition
- an islet, a rock in a river; an embankment; to stop
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 32.5
- kTGH
- 2013:3847
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chí,dǐ 10433.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chí 0142.100 · dǐ 0232.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dǐ 071.240
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dǐ粵dai2 chí粵ci4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 直尼 諸氏 都禮
- Kangxi positions
- 0227.050
- Guangyun positions
- 053.50 240.28 269.07
- GSR references
- 0590l
- Cangjie
- GHPM
- Four-corner
- 4214.0