氐 · dī
name of an ancient tribe; root; 3rd lunar mansion, determinative star α Librae (Zubenelgenubi)
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
name of an ancient tribe; root; 3rd lunar mansion, determinative star α Librae (Zubenelgenubi)
- Mandarin
- dī
- Cantonese
- dai1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 氐 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
シ タイ チ テイ とも なやむ ひくい ふす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
- 저
- 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+6C10
- Radical
- 氏 · 83
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 1
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 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 氐
Character connections
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trij · 丁尼 反切 · #180
- Middle Chinese
- tej · 都奚 反切 · #300
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1510 · trij = 止開三平脂知 · tej = 蟹開四平齊端
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
- dī
- kCantonese
- dai1
- kDefinition
- name of an ancient tribe; root; 3rd lunar mansion, determinative star α Librae (Zubenelgenubi)
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 83.1
- kTGH
- 2013:3548
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- dǐ,dī,zhī 32130.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dī 0229.070 · dǐ 0231.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dī 070.150 · dǐ 071.210
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dǐ粵dai2 dī粵dai1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 丁尼 都奚
- Kangxi positions
- 0597.190
- Guangyun positions
- 058.25 087.35
- GSR references
- 0590a
- Cangjie
- HPM
- Four-corner
- 7274.0