碓

碓 U+7893, 碓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7893 ← 碒 [U+7892] CJK Unified Ideographs 碔 → [U+7894]

Translingual

Han character

碓 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口人土 (MROG), four-corner 1061₄, composition ⿰石隹)

Derived characters

• 𡽛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 832, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2438, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7893

Chinese

simp. and trad.		碓

Etymology

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蜼	*lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆	*tuːl
嵟	*tuːl
碓	*tuːls
推	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷	*tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮	*duːlʔ
魋	*duːl
嶊	*stuːlʔ
崔	*zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚	*ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎	*dul
顀	*dul
隹	*tjul
錐	*tjul
萑	*kljul
騅	*tjul
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰	*djul
脽	*djul

Perhaps cognate with 鍛 (OC *toːns, “to forge”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duì (dui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): deoi³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): toi
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tùi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duèi
    • Wade–Giles: tui⁴
    • Yale: dwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duey
    • Palladius: дуй (duj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: deoi³
    • Yale: deui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɵy̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: toi
    • Hakka Romanization System: doi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: doi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /toi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tùi
    • Tâi-lô: tuì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tui²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tui²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tui¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tui²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: twojH

Rime
Character	碓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都隊切
Baxter	twojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/tuoiH/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twəjH/
Li Rong	/tuᴀiH/
Wang Li	/tuɒiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tuɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	deoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	碓
Reading #	1/1
No.	17707
Phonetic component	隹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	對
Old Chinese	/*tuːls/

Definitions

碓

1. pestle
2. to pound with a pestle

Compounds

• 剉碓
• 地碓
• 大剉碓
• 大舂碓
• 搗碓 / 捣碓
• 槽碓
• 機碓 / 机碓
• 水碓 (shuǐduì)
• 溪碓
• 碓嘴
• 碓坊
• 碓屋
• 碓房
• 碓投
• 碓捣
• 碓挺嘴
• 碓搗 / 碓捣
• 碓擣 / 碓捣
• 碓柵 / 碓栅
• 碓桯
• 碓梢
• 碓機 / 碓机
• 碓磑 / 碓硙
• 碓臼 (duìjiù)
• 碓舂
• 碓頭 / 碓头
• 碓顙 / 碓颡
• 腳碓 / 脚碓
• 舂碓
• 行碓
• 谿碓
• 踏碓
• 連機碓 / 连机碓
• 雲碓 / 云碓
• 電碓 / 电碓

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duī (dui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄟ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duī
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duei
    • Wade–Giles: tui¹
    • Yale: dwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duei
    • Palladius: дуй (duj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

碓

1. only used in 離碓／离碓

Japanese

Kanji

碓

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai)
• Kan-on: たい (tai)
• Kun: うす (usu, 碓)、かくたる (kakutaru, 碓たる)、たしか (tashika, 碓か)

References

• “^▲碓”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

碓 • (dae) (hangeul 대, revised dae, McCune–Reischauer tae, Yale tay)

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