帝

帝 U+5E1D, 帝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E1D
← 帜
[U+5E1C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 帞 →
[U+5E1E]

Translingual

Han character

帝 (radical 50 巾+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜月中月 (YBLB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿱⿳亠丷冖巾)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 330, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8865
  • Dae Jaweon: page 636, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 738, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5E1D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 帝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 帝
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Ancient script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (帝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
膪 *rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
揥 *tʰeds, *teː
腣 *teː, *teːɡs
諦 *teːɡs
偙 *teːɡs
渧 *teːɡs
帝 *teːɡs
楴 *tʰeːɡs
啼 *deː
蹄 *deː
締 *deː, *deːɡs
崹 *deː
鶙 *deː
禘 *deːɡs
啻 *hljeɡs
嫡 *rteɡ, *teːɡ
摘 *rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
謫 *rteːɡ
讁 *rteːɡ
擿 *deɡ
蹢 *deɡ, *teːɡ
適 *tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇 *teːɡ
滴 *teːɡ
鏑 *teːɡ
甋 *teːɡ
樀 *teːɡ, *deːɡ
敵 *deːɡ

Pictogram (象形) . Possible interpretations:

  • The sepal of a flower; original form of 蒂 (OC *teːds, “stem; peduncle”).
  • Tied-up firewood; original form of 禘 (OC *deːɡs).
  • An altar; original form of 禘 (OC *deːɡs).

The character was later borrowed for “God of Heaven”, which was later used as a title for emperors. Shuowen erroneously interprets the character to be a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *teːɡs) : semantic 丄 (“up; above”) + phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan [Term?] (Schuessler, 2007).

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 帝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /teiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /teiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /teiH/
Wang
Li		 /tieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 帝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤek-s/
English God

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 帝
Reading # 1/1
No. 2313
Phonetic
component		 帝
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 帝
Old
Chinese		 /*teːɡs/
Notes 甲金文象根啇非朿聲

Definitions

帝

  1. † God of Heaven
  2. emperor; sovereign
  3. Short for 帝國主義／帝国主义 (dìguózhǔyì, “imperialism”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

帝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sovereign

Readings

Alternative forms

Noun

帝 (hiragana みかど, rōmaji mikado)

  1. mikado (emperor of Japan)
  2. emperor

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

帝 (eumhun 임금 제 (imgeum je))

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Vietnamese

Han character

帝 (đế, đấy, đê, để, đí, đó)

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