娣

娣	U+5A23, 娣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A23

← 娢
[U+5A22]

CJK Unified Ideographs

娤 →
[U+5A24]

Translingual

Han character

娣 (radical 38 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女金弓竹 (VCNH), four-corner 4842₇, composition ⿰女弟)

References

KangXi: page 263, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6329
Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1053, character 14
Unihan data for U+5A23

Chinese

simp. and trad.		娣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弟) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
梯	*tʰiːl
睇	tʰiːl, diːls
涕	tʰiːlʔ, tʰiːls
挮	*tʰiːlʔ
鬀	tʰiːls, diːls
剃	*tʰiːls
綈	*diːl
蕛	*diːl
稊	*diːl
苐	*diːl
鵜	*diːl
銻	*diːl
鮷	*diːl
罤	*diːl
弟	diːlʔ, diːls
娣	diːlʔ, diːls
悌	diːlʔ, diːls
第	*diːls

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *diːlʔ, *diːls) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “young family member”).

Etymology

Same word as 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “younger brother”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dì (di⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dai⁶, tai⁵, tai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dì
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
  - Wade–Giles: tih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
  - IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: dai⁶, tai⁵, tai⁶
  - Yale: daih, táih, taih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dai⁶, tai⁵, tai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dei⁶, tei⁵, tei⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯²²/, /tʰɐi̯¹³/, /tʰɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /dei^X/, /dei^H/▼

Rime
Character	娣	娣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	徒禮切	特計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dei^X/	/dei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/dei^X/	/dei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛi^X/	/dɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛj^X/	/dɛj^H/
Li Rong	/dei^X/	/dei^H/
Wang Li	/diei^X/	/diei^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱiei^X/	/dʱiei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dì	dì

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤəjʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*diːlʔ/, /*diːls/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	娣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dì
Middle Chinese	‹ dej^X ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤəjʔ/
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	弟
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	弟	第
Old Chinese	/*diːlʔ/	/*diːls/

Definitions

娣

^† younger of two women married to a man; (in general) concubine of a man
^† younger sister
^† wife of husband's younger brother
^† mother's younger sister
A surname.

Usage notes

This character may now be used in the given name of a girl to symbolize the hope that she will have a younger brother.

Compounds

內娣／内娣
姒娣

娣姒

娣婦／娣妇

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

娣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

younger sister
sister-in-law

Readings

On (unclassified): てい (tei), だい (dai)

Kun: いもうと (imouto), おば (oba)

Korean

Hanja

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

younger sister
sister-in-law

Vietnamese

Han character

娣 (đệ)

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References

Nom Foundation

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