諦

諦

See also: 谛

諦 U+8AE6, 諦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AE6 ← 諥 [U+8AE5] CJK Unified Ideographs 諧 → [U+8AE7]

Translingual

Han character

諦 (radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜月月 (YRYBB), four-corner 0062₇, composition ⿰言帝)

References

• KangXi: page 1170, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35716
• Dae Jaweon: page 1635, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4001, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8AE6

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Chinese

trad.		諦
simp.		谛

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *teːɡs) : semantic 言 + phonetic 帝 (OC *teːɡs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì (di⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dai³
• Min Nan (POJ): tè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
    • IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dai³
    • Yale: dai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dei³
    • IPA ^(key): /tɐi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tè
    • Tâi-lô: tè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /te²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /te²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /te¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /tei^H/▼

Rime
Character	諦
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*teːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	諦
Reading #	1/1
No.	2308
Phonetic component	帝
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	帝
Old Chinese	/*teːɡs/

Definitions

諦

1. to examine; to scrutinise
2. careful; attentive
3. principle; basis; essence
4. (Buddhism) truth

Compounds

三諦／三谛 二諦／二谛 四諦／四谛 圓融三諦／圆融三谛

揭諦／揭谛 洗耳諦聽／洗耳谛听 真諦／真谛 (zhēndì)

聖諦／圣谛 (shèngdì) 諦聽／谛听 (dìtīng) 諦視／谛视 (dìshì)

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Japanese

Kanji

諦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei, Jōyō); たい (tai)
• Kun: あきらめる (akirameru, 諦める, Jōyō); つまびらか (tsumabiraka, 諦らか); まこと (makoto, 諦)

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Korean

Hanja

諦 • (che) (hangeul 체, revised che, McCune–Reischauer ch'e, Yale chey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

諦 (đế)

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