踟

踟 U+8E1F, 踟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E1F ← 踞 [U+8E1E] CJK Unified Ideographs 踠 → [U+8E20]

Translingual

Han character

踟 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口一人大口 (RMOKR), four-corner 6610₀, composition ⿰𧾷知)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1228, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37645
• Dae Jaweon: page 1700, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3717, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8E1F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		踟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
彘	*l'eds
璏	*l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙	*l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知	*ʔl'e
蜘	*te
智	*ʔl'es
鼅	*te
潪	*teɡs, *deɡ
踟	*de
雉	*l'iʔ
矢	*hliʔ
痴	*l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *de) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 知 (OC *ʔl'e).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chí (chi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chíh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih²
    • Yale: chŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyr
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: drje

Rime
Character	踟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直離切
Baxter	drje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ȡje/
Wang Li	/ȡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]re/

  (Zhengzhang): /*de/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	踟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ drje ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]re/
English	踟躕 *[d]re.[d]ro walk hesitatingly
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	踟
Reading #	1/1
No.	11500
Phonetic component	矢
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	馳
Old Chinese	/*de/

Definitions

踟

1. to walk back and forth
2. to hesitate

Compounds

• 搔首踟躕 / 搔首踟蹰
• 步踟躕 / 步踟蹰
• 踟跦
• 踟蹰 (chíchú)
• 踟躅
• 踟躇 (chíchú)
• 踟躕 / 踟蹰 (chíchú)

 

Japanese

Kanji

踟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)

Korean

Hanja

踟 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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