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弟
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Translingual
Han character
弟 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 金弓中竹 (CNLH), four-corner 80227, composition ⿹弚丿)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 357, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9737
- Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 244, character 10
- Unihan data for U+5F1F
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Chinese
Glyph origin
Pictogram (象形) of a spear handle wrapped in a leather strap. The wrapping signified order or sequence, which extended to "younger brother".
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): di4
- (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): dī
- Cantonese
- (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): dai6
- (Dongguan, Jyutping++): doi3
- (Taishan, Wiktionary): ai5 / hai4
- Gan (Wiktionary): ti5
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): di3
- Northern Min (KCR): dī
- Eastern Min (BUC): dâ̤ / diê
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): di5 / de5
- Southern Min
- Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): dai6
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 6di
- Xiang
- (Changsha, Wiktionary): di5 / di4
- (Loudi, Wiktionary): ddi5
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dì
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dì
- Wade–Giles: ti4
- Yale: dì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dih
- Palladius: ди (di)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: di4
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: di
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti²¹³/
- (Xi'an)
- Guanzhong Pinyin: dī
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: dai6
- Yale: daih
- Cantonese Pinyin: dai6
- Guangdong Romanization: dei6
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɐi̯²²/
- (Dongguan, Guancheng)
- Jyutping++: doi3
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɔi³²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: ai5 / hai4
- Sinological IPA (key): /ai³²/, /hai²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Note: hai4 - in 阿弟.
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: ti5
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰi¹¹/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi / thâi
- Hakka Romanization System: ti / taiˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ti4 / tai1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵/, /tʰai̯²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: ti˖ / taiˋ
- Sinological IPA: /tʰi³³/, /tʰai⁵³/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
Note: thâi/taiˋ/tai1 - vernacular, in 老弟.
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: di3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /ti⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: dī
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti⁵⁵/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dâ̤ / diê
- Sinological IPA (key): /tɑ²⁴²/, /tiɛ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: di5
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dī
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: di5
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti²¹/
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: de5
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dā̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /te¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: de5
- Sinological IPA (key): /te²¹/
- (Putian)
Note:
- di5 - vernacular;
- de5 - literary.
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong, Singapore)
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang)
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē
- Tâi-lô: tē
- Phofsit Daibuun: de
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te²²/
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /te³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tě
- Tâi-lô: tě
- IPA (Quanzhou): /te²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî
- Tâi-lô: tî
- Phofsit Daibuun: dii
- IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ti²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ti
- Tâi-lô: ti
- Phofsit Daibuun: dy
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tih
- Tâi-lô: tih
- Phofsit Daibuun: diq
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiʔ³²/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: di6
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tĭ
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti³⁵/
- (Teochew)
- Southern Pinghua
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
- Jyutping++: dai6
- Sinological IPA (key): /təi²²/
- (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
- Wu
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: di5 / di4
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti²¹/, /ti⁴⁵/
- (Changsha)
- di5 - vernacular;
- di4 - literary.
- (Loudi)
- Wiktionary: ddi5
- Sinological IPA (key): /di¹¹/
- (Loudi)
Note:
- Middle Chinese: dejX, dejH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤəjʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*diːlʔ/, /*diːls/
Definitions
弟
Compounds
- 三千弟子
- 上色徒弟
- 上首徒弟
- 不弟
- 世弟
- 介弟
- 仁弟
- 令弟 (lìngdì)
- 佛門弟子 / 佛门弟子
- 佳子弟
- 兄友弟恭 (xiōngyǒudìgōng)
- 兄弟
- 兄弟共妻
- 兄弟會 / 兄弟会 (xiōngdìhuì)
- 兄弟鬩牆 / 兄弟阋墙 (xiōngdìxìqiáng)
- 兄死弟及
- 兄終弟及 / 兄终弟及 (xiōngzhōngdìjí)
- 兄肥弟瘦
- 入室弟子
- 內兄弟 / 内兄弟
- 內弟 / 内弟 (nèidì)
- 八千子弟
- 八旗子弟 (bāqí zǐdì)
- 公昆弟
- 十大弟子
- 博士弟子
- 同胞兄弟 (tóngbāo xiōngdì)
- 呼兄喚弟 / 呼兄唤弟
- 堂兄弟 (tángxiōngdì)
- 堂弟 (tángdì)
- 外弟
- 大弟
- 夫兄弟
- 太弟
- 女弟 (nǚdì)
- 女弟子
- 如兄如弟
- 如兄弟
- 好兄弟 (hǎoxiōngdì)
- 如弟
- 妓弟
- 姻兄弟
- 姻弟
- 婦弟 / 妇弟 (fùdì)
- 嫡傳弟子 / 嫡传弟子
- 嫡親兄弟 / 嫡亲兄弟
- 子弟 (zǐdì)
- 子弟兵 (zǐdìbīng)
- 子弟戲 / 子弟戏
- 子弟書 / 子弟书
- 孝弟 (xiàotì)
- 孝弟力田
- 孿生兄弟 / 孪生兄弟 (luánshēng xiōngdì)
- 宗弟
- 家弟
- 小兄弟
- 小弟 (xiǎodì)
- 巒兄巒弟 / 峦兄峦弟
- 師兄弟 / 师兄弟
- 師弟 / 师弟 (shīdì)
- 帶徒弟 / 带徒弟
- 年弟
- 弟兄 (dìxiong)
- 弟妹 (dìmèi)
- 弟婦 / 弟妇 (dìfù)
- 弟媳 (dìxí)
- 弟媳婦 / 弟媳妇 (dìxífù)
- 弟子 (dìzǐ)
- 弟子員 / 弟子员
- 弟子孩兒 / 弟子孩儿
- 弟弟
- 弟茂德 (Dìmàodé)
- 弟郎
- 徒弟 (túdì)
- 從兄弟 / 从兄弟 (cóngxiōngdì)
- 從弟 / 从弟 (cóngdì)
- 房分兄弟
- 把兄弟 (bǎxiōngdì)
- 拜把兄弟
- 換帖兄弟 / 换帖兄弟
- 故家子弟
- 族兄弟
- 族弟 (zúdì)
- 昆弟
- 昆弟之好
- 梨園子弟 / 梨园子弟 (Líyuán zǐdì)
- 梨園弟子 / 梨园弟子
- 桿弟 / 杆弟
- 母弟 (mǔdì)
- 江東子弟 / 江东子弟
- 清寒子弟
- 淑弟
- 漂蕩子弟 / 漂荡子弟
- 烏衣子弟 / 乌衣子弟
- 生死弟兄 (shēngsǐ dìxiōng)
- 異母兄弟 / 异母兄弟 (yìmǔ xiōngdì)
- 盟兄弟 (méngxiōngdì)
- 硯弟 / 砚弟
- 稱兄道弟 / 称兄道弟 (chēngxiōngdàodì)
- 紈褲子弟 / 纨裤子弟
- 結拜兄弟 / 结拜兄弟 (jiébài xiōngdì)
- 義弟 / 义弟 (yìdì)
- 老兄弟
- 老弟 (lǎodì)
- 胞兄弟 (bāoxiōngdì)
- 胞弟 (bāodì)
- 膏粱子弟
- 至親兄弟 / 至亲兄弟
- 良家子弟
- 苟弟轉酷 / 苟弟转酷
- 萊特兄弟 / 莱特兄弟
- 表兄弟 (biǎoxiōngdì)
- 表弟 (biǎodì)
- 襟弟 (jīndì)
- 誤人子弟 / 误人子弟 (wùrénzǐdì)
- 譜兄弟 / 谱兄弟
- 豈弟 / 岂弟
- 豈弟君子 / 岂弟君子
- 貴族子弟 / 贵族子弟
- 貴遊子弟 / 贵游子弟
- 賢弟 / 贤弟 (xiándì)
- 農家子弟 / 农家子弟
- 遠兄弟 / 远兄弟
- 邸弟
- 酒肉兄弟
- 鋤大弟 / 锄大弟 (chúdàdì)
- 關門弟子 / 关门弟子
- 阿弟 (ādì)
- 難兄難弟 / 难兄难弟
- 露臺弟子 / 露台弟子
- 風月子弟 / 风月子弟
- 香火兄弟
- 高業弟子 / 高业弟子
- 高足弟子
Descendants
- → Thai: ตี๋ (dtǐi, “younger brother”) (said by Chinese race)
Synonyms
- (younger brother):
Pronunciation 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 弟 – see 悌 (“to love and respect one's elder brothers; peaceful; at ease”). (This character is an ancient form of 悌). |
References
- “弟”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
- “弟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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