尉遲

Chinese

		milit. official; to quiet	late; delayed; slow
trad. (尉遲)		尉	遲
simp. (尉迟)		尉	迟

Etymology

Found as one of clans of Xianbei, as well as a surname of the king of Khotan. According to Li-yul lung-bstan-pa (ལི་ཡུལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་), retrieved from the Dunhuang manuscripts and translated in Chinese as Yü-t'ien-kuo Hsüan-chi (于闐國懸記), this surname is transliteration of Sanskrit विजय (vijaya).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yùchí

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wat¹ ci⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Ut-tî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yùchí
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ ㄔˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yùchíh
    • Wade–Giles: Yü⁴-chʻih²
    • Yale: Yù-chŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yuhchyr
    • Palladius: Юйчи (Jujči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wat¹ ci⁴
    • Yale: wāt chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wat⁷ tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wed¹ qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ut-tî
    • Tâi-lô: Ut-tî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: utdii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ut̚³²⁻⁴ ti²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ut̚⁵⁻²⁴ ti²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ut̚³²⁻⁵ ti¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ut̚³²⁻⁴ ti²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ut̚³²⁻⁴ ti²³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jut drij

Rime
Character	尉	遲
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	物 (60)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	紆物切	直尼切
Baxter	'jut	drij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨut̚/	/ɖˠiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiut̚/	/ɖᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuət̚/	/ȡiɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔut̚/	/ɖji/
Li Rong	/ʔiuət̚/	/ȡji/
Wang Li	/ĭuət̚/	/ȡi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯uət̚/	/ȡʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yu	chí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wat1	ci4

Proper noun

尉遲

1. a surname

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (尉遲):

• → Japanese: 尉(うっ)遅(ち) (Utchi)
• → Korean: 울지(尉遲) (Ulji)
• → Vietnamese: Uất Trì (尉遲)