菂

菂 U+83C2, 菂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83C2 ← 菁 [U+83C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 菃 → [U+83C3]

Translingual

Han character

菂 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹日戈 (THAI), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹的)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1036, character 47
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31138
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3236, character 1
• Unihan data for U+83C2

Chinese

trad.		菂
simp. #		菂
alternative forms		的

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 的 (OC *pleːwɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dì, dī

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ, ㄉㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dì
    • Wade–Giles: ti⁴
    • Yale: dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dī
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: di
    • Wade–Giles: ti¹
    • Yale: dī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: di
    • Palladius: ди (di)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dik¹
    • Yale: dīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚⁵/

Definitions

菂

1. (literary) lotus seed
2. (Cantonese) small protrusion (Classifier: 粒 c)
3. (Cantonese, euphemistic, specifically) nipple (Classifier: 粒 c)
   • 1994, Love on Delivery:

     外賣仔一手抱腰，另一隻手也不閒著，偷偷的從大師兄衣襟挖入，喺佢豐滿嘅雙峰附近，周圍任意遊覽。而大師兄嘅慾火再也控制不住了。嗰兩粒的，亦由軟嘅棉花糖變為硬嘅橡皮糖嘞。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     外卖仔一手抱腰，另一只手也不闲着，偷偷的从大师兄衣襟挖入，喺佢丰满嘅双峰附近，周围任意游览。而大师兄嘅欲火再也控制不住了。嗰两粒的，亦由软嘅棉花糖变为硬嘅橡皮糖嘞。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     ngoi⁶ maai⁶ zai² jat¹ sau² pou⁵ jiu¹, ling⁶ jat¹ zek³ sau² jaa⁵ bat¹ haan⁴ zoek⁶, tau¹ tau¹ dik¹ cung⁴ daai⁶ si¹ hing¹ ji¹ kam¹ waat³ jap⁶, hai² keoi⁵ fung¹ mun⁵ ge³ soeng¹ fung¹ fu⁶ gan⁶, zau¹ wai⁴ jam⁶ ji³ jau⁴ laam⁵. ji⁴ daai⁶ si¹ hing¹ ge³ juk⁶ fo² zoi³ jaa⁵ hung³ zai³ bat¹ zyu⁶ liu⁵. go² loeng⁵ lap¹ dik¹, jik⁶ jau⁴ jyun⁵ ge³ min⁴ faa¹ tong^4-2 bin³ wai⁴ ngaang⁶ ge³ zoeng⁶ pei⁴ tong⁴ laak³. [Jyutping]

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Synonyms

• (lotus seed): 蓮子／莲子 (liánzǐ)
• (nipple):

Dialectal synonyms of 乳頭 (“nipple”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		乳頭
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	奶頭兒, 乳頭兒, 媽媽頭兒, 咂頭兒, 咂咂頭兒
	Harbin	奶頭兒
	Singapore	奶頭
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	媽媽頭兒, 奶頭兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	奶頭
	Wanrong	奶頭
	Xi'an	奶頭嘴
	Xuzhou	媽媽頂子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	奶頭
	Lanzhou	苶苶蛋子
	Ürümqi	奶頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	奶奶嘴嘴兒
	Wuhan	媽媽頭, 媽頭, 奶頭
	Guiyang	咪咪嘴, 奶頭, 奶嘴
	Liuzhou	奶頭
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	奶頭子
Cantonese	Hong Kong	𢆡頭, 𢆡
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	𢆡頭, 奶頭
Gan	Nanchang	奶頭子
	Lichuan	奶珠
	Pingxiang	奶嘴仔
Hakka	Meixian	奶菇嘴, 奶嘴
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	奶頭
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	奶頭
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	奶頭
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	奶頭
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	奶頭
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	奶頭
Huizhou	Jixi	奶頭
Jin	Taiyuan	奶頭頭
	Xinzhou	奶頭
Northern Min	Jian'ou	奶頭
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	奶頭
Southern Min	Xiamen	奶仔頭, 奶頭
	Quanzhou	奶頭
	Zhangzhou	奶頭仔
	Tainan	奶頭
	Singapore (Hokkien)	奶奶扑
	Manila (Hokkien)	奶頭
	Leizhou	乳蒂
	Haikou	奶頭
Wu	Shanghai	奶奶頭, 奶頭
	Shanghai (Chongming)	奶頭
	Suzhou	奶奶頭
	Danyang	奶頭
	Hangzhou	奶奶頭
	Ningbo	奶頭, 奶奶頭
	Wenzhou	奶頭, 奶奶頭兒, 奶子頭兒
	Jinhua	奶頭
Xiang	Changsha	奶頭
	Loudi	奶婆尖子
	Hengyang	奶婆嘴

Korean

Hanja

菂 • (jeok) (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune–Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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