低
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Translingual
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Han character
低 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人竹心一 (OHPM) or 人竹女戈 (OHVI), four-corner 22240, composition ⿰亻氐)
References
- KangXi: page 98, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 504
- Dae Jaweon: page 207, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 137, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4F4E
Chinese
| trad. | 低 | |
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| simp. # | 低 | |
Glyph origin
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Characters in the same phonetic series (氐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
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| 低 | *tiːl |
| 氐 | *tiːl, *til |
| 袛 | *tiːl |
| 羝 | *tiːl |
| 眡 | *tiːl, *djilʔ |
| 岻 | *tiːl, *dil |
| 奃 | *tiːl |
| 趆 | *tiːl, *tiːls |
| 柢 | *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls |
| 邸 | *tiːlʔ |
| 底 | *tiːlʔ |
| 詆 | *tiːlʔ, *diːl |
| 坻 | *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil |
| 抵 | *tiːlʔ |
| 牴 | *tiːlʔ |
| 觝 | *tiːlʔ |
| 弤 | *tiːlʔ |
| 軧 | *tiːlʔ |
| 骶 | *tiːls |
| 砥 | *tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils |
| 胝 | *til |
| 疷 | *til |
| 秪 | *til |
| 泜 | *dil |
| 蚳 | *dil |
| 彽 | *dil |
| 阺 | *dil |
| 貾 | *dil |
| 祗 | *tjil |
| 厎 | *tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 茋 | *tjilʔ |
| 鴟 | *tʰjil |
| 汦 | *kjeʔ, *tjil |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tiːl) : semantic 亻 (“man, person”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til) – a person lowering themselves, bowing.
Etymology 1
Cognate with 底 (OC *tiːlʔ, “bottom”), 柢 (OC *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls, “root of a tree; base”), Tibetan མཐིལ (mthil, “bottom; floor”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
Definitions
低
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 低 (“low”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
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| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 低 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 低 |
| Taiwan | 低 | |
| Jinan | 低 | |
| Xi'an | 低 | |
| Wuhan | 低, 矮 | |
| Chengdu | 矮, 低 | |
| Yangzhou | 低 | |
| Hefei | 低, 矮 | |
| Malaysia | 低 | |
| Singapore | 低 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 低 |
| Hong Kong | 低 | |
| Taishan | 低 | |
| Yangjiang | 低 | |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 低 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 低, 矮 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 低, 矮 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 低 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 矮 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 下, 矮 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 下 |
| Quanzhou | 下 | |
| Zhangzhou | 下 | |
| Tainan | 下 | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 下 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 下 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 下 | |
| Chaozhou | 下, 矮 | |
| Shantou | 下 | |
| Jieyang | 下 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 下 | |
| Pontianak (Teochew) | 下 | |
| Singapore (Hainanese) | 低 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 低 |
| Ningbo | 低, 矮 | |
| Zhoushan | 低, 矮 | |
| Wenzhou | 低, 矮 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 低, 矮, 下 |
| Shuangfeng | 低, 矮 | |
Dialectal synonyms of 矮 (“short (in stature)”) [map]
Compounds
Derived terms from 低
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Pronunciation
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Han character
低: Hán Nôm readings: đây, đay, đê
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