滴

Translingual

Han character

滴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水卜金月 (EYCB), four-corner 3012₇, composition ⿰氵啇)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18084
Dae Jaweon: page 1051, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1729, character 2
Unihan data for U+6EF4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		滴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
膪	rtaːɡs, rteːɡs
揥	tʰeds, teː
腣	teː, teːɡs
諦	*teːɡs
偙	*teːɡs
渧	*teːɡs
帝	*teːɡs
楴	*tʰeːɡs
啼	*deː
蹄	*deː
締	deː, deːɡs
崹	*deː
鶙	*deː
禘	*deːɡs
啻	*hljeɡs
嫡	rteɡ, teːɡ
摘	rteːɡ, tʰeːɡ
謫	*rteːɡ
讁	*rteːɡ
擿	*deɡ
蹢	deɡ, teːɡ
適	tjeɡ, hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇	*teːɡ
滴	*teːɡ
鏑	*teːɡ
甋	*teːɡ
樀	teːɡ, deːɡ
敵	*deːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *teːɡ) : semantic 水 + phonetic 啻 (OC *hljeɡs).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dī (di¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶ / dik¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tit
Eastern Min (BUC): dék
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deh⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tih / tek

(Teochew, Peng'im): dih⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷tiq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - 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: dik⁶ / dik¹
  - Yale: dihk / dīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹ / dik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶ / dig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/, /tɪk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tit
  - Hakka Romanization System: did^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: did⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tit̚²/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dék
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛiʔ²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: deh⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛʔ¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: deh⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɛʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tih
  - Tâi-lô: tih
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diq
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /tiʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tek
  - Tâi-lô: tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: deg
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɪk̚⁵/

Note:

tih - vernacular (“to drip; to drip something into; drop of liquid; classifier; a little; trace left”);
tek - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: dih⁴
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tih
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiʔ²/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷tiq
  - MiniDict: tih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tiɪʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: tek

Rime
Character	滴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	都歷切
Baxter	tek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/tek̚/
Wang Li	/tiek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	di
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dik¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*teːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滴
Reading #	1/1
No.	2333
Phonetic component	帝
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	的
Old Chinese	/*teːɡ/

Definitions

滴

to drip; to dribble
to drip something into
滴兩滴眼藥水 [Cantonese, trad.]
滴两滴眼药水 [Cantonese, simp.]
dik⁶ loeng⁵ dik⁶ ngaan⁵ joek⁶ seoi² [Jyutping]
to instill a few drops of eye drops
drop of liquid
Classifier for drops of liquid. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
兩滴水／两滴水 ― liǎng dī shuǐ ― two drops of water
(Hakka, Southern Min) a little
一滴仔 [Hokkien] ― chi̍t tih á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― a little

滴滴仔 [Hokkien] ― tih tih á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― a little bit
(Mainland China Hokkien) trace left by a drop of liquid

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dik⁶
  - Yale: dihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚²/

Verb

滴

(Cantonese, of ball) to bounce against a surface

Compounds

滴滴仔

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dī (di¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dī → di (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ → ˙ㄉㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: di̊
  - Wade–Giles: ti⁵
  - Yale: di
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .di
  - Palladius: ди (di)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵/ → /d̥i/

Definitions

滴

(cute-sounding) Alternative form of 的².
(cute-sounding) Alternative form of 地².
(cute-sounding) Alternative form of 得 (“Used after a verb or an adjective and before a complement”).

Japanese

Kanji

滴

(Jōyō kanji)

drop

Readings

Go-on: ちゃく (chaku)
Kan-on: てき (teki, Jōyō)
Kun: しずく (shizuku, 滴, Jōyō)^{←しづく (siduku, 滴, historical)}、したたる (shitataru, 滴る, Jōyō)、したたり (shitatari)

Compounds

水滴(すいてき) (suiteki) : drop of water

Kanji in this term
滴
しずく Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
雫

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) しずく [shìzúkúꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕizɨkɯ̟]

Noun

滴(しずく) • (shizuku)

drop (of water or other liquids)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

滴 • (jeok) (hangeul 적)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滴: Hán Nôm readings: nhích, nhếch, rích, tách, tích, trích

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[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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