鯛

See also: 鲷

鯛 U+9BDB, 鯛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BDB ← 鯚 [U+9BDA] CJK Unified Ideographs 鯜 → [U+9BDC]

Translingual

Han character

鯛 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火月土口 (NFBGR), four-corner 2732₀, composition ⿰魚周)

1. sea bream, porgy

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1472, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46226
• Dae Jaweon: page 2004, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4697, character 18
• Unihan data for U+9BDB

Chinese

trad.		鯛
simp.		鲷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
裯	*tuːw, *dɯw, *do
啁	*tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
禂	*tuːwʔ
綢	*tʰuːw, *dɯw
翢	*tʰuːw, *duːw
錭	*duːw
雕	*tɯːw
凋	*tɯːw
琱	*tɯːw
鯛	*tɯːw
鵰	*tɯːw
彫	*tɯːw
奝	*tɯːw
調	*dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
蜩	*dɯːw
惆	*tʰɯw
婤	*tʰɯw, *tjɯw
稠	*dɯw
椆	*dɯw, *tjɯws
周	*tjɯw
輖	*tjɯw
賙	*tjɯw
郮	*tjɯw
晭	*tjɯwʔ
倜	*tʰɯːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tɯːw): semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 周 (OC *tjɯw).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diāo (diao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): diu¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dieo¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diao
    • Wade–Giles: tiao¹
    • Yale: dyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diau
    • Palladius: дяо (djao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: diu¹
    • Yale: dīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: diu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: diu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: dieo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieu⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiau
    • Tâi-lô: tiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiau⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tew

Rime
Character	鯛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都聊切
Baxter	tew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/teu/
Pan Wuyun	/teu/
Shao Rongfen	/teu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛw/
Li Rong	/teu/
Wang Li	/tieu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	diāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	diu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tɯːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鯛
Reading #	1/1
No.	17516
Phonetic component	周
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	貂
Old Chinese	/*tɯːw/

Definitions

鯛

1. sea bream

   蒲燒鯛炒飯／蒲烧鲷炒饭  ―  pú shāo diāo chǎofàn  ―  Kabayaki sea bream fried rice

Synonyms

• 鯛鱼

Compounds

• 丁鯛 / 丁鲷
• 海鯛 / 海鲷 (hǎidiāo)
• 的鯛 / 的鲷
• 真鯛 / 真鲷 (zhēndiāo)
• 菱鯛 / 菱鲷
• 雀鯛 / 雀鲷
• 黃鯛 / 黄鲷
• 黑鯛 / 黑鲷 (hēidiāo)

References

• “鯛”, 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–
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 697.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鲷”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 51.