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娣

娣 U+5A23, 娣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A23
← 娢
[U+5A22] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 娤 →
[U+5A24]

Translingual

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Han character

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娣 (Kangxi radical 38, 女おんな+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女おんな金きん弓ゆみ竹ちく (VCNH), four-corner 48427, composition ⿰女おんな弟おとうと)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6329
  • Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1053, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5A23

Chinese

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trad. 娣
simp. # 娣

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (弟おとうと) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梯はしご *tʰiːl
睇 *tʰiːl, *diːls
涕 *tʰiːlʔ, *tʰiːls
挮 *tʰiːlʔ
鬀 *tʰiːls, *diːls
剃そ *tʰiːls
綈 *diːl
蕛 *diːl
稊 *diːl
苐 *diːl
鵜う *diːl
銻 *diːl
鮷 *diːl
罤 *diːl
弟おとうと *diːlʔ, *diːls
娣 *diːlʔ, *diːls
悌 *diːlʔ, *diːls
第だい *diːls

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) and phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *diːlʔ, *diːls) : semantic 女おんな (“woman”) + phonetic 弟おとうと (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “young family member”).

Etymology

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Same word as 弟おとうと (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “younger brother”).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 娣 娣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲こえ) 定じょう (7) 定じょう (7)
Final (韻いん) 齊ひとし (39) 齊ひとし (39)
Tone (調しらべ) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい) Open Open
Division (等ひとし) IV IV
Fanqie 徒と禮れい切きり 特とく計けい切きり
Baxter dejX dejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/deiX/ /deiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/deiX/ /deiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɛiX/ /dɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dɛjX/ /dɛjH/
Li
Rong 		/deiX/ /deiH/
Wang
Li 		/dieiX/ /dieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱieiX/ /dʱieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dì dì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dai6 dai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 娣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dejX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lˁəjʔ/
English younger secondary wife

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 娣 娣
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2295 2302
Phonetic
component 		弟おとうと 弟おとうと
Rime
group 		脂あぶら 脂あぶら
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		弟おとうと 第だい
Old
Chinese 		/*diːlʔ/ /*diːls/

Definitions

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娣

  1. † younger of two women married to a man; (in general) concubine of a man
  2. † younger sister
  3. † wife of husband's younger brother
  4. † mother's younger sister
  5. a surname
  6. Used in the given name of a girl to symbolize the hope that she will have a younger brother.
    招娣  ―  Zhāodì  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    引娣  ―  Yǐndì  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

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Kanji

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娣

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. younger sister
  2. sister-in-law

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Korean

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Hanja

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娣 • (je) (hangeul 제, revised je, McCune–Reischauer che)

  1. younger sister
  2. sister-in-law

Vietnamese

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Han character

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娣: Hán Nôm readings: đệ

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