狄鞮

Chinese

		barbarians; name of a tribe	surname; leather shoes
trad. (狄鞮)		狄	鞮
simp. #(狄鞮)		狄	鞮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dídī

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˊ ㄉㄧ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dídī
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˊ ㄉㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dídi
    • Wade–Giles: ti²-ti¹
    • Yale: dí-dī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyidi
    • Palladius: диди (didi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti³⁵ ti⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dek tej

Rime
Character	狄	鞮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	徒歷切	都奚切
Baxter	dek	tej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dek̚/	/tei/
Pan Wuyun	/dek̚/	/tei/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛk̚/	/tɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛjk̚/	/tɛj/
Li Rong	/dek̚/	/tei/
Wang Li	/diek̚/	/tiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiek̚/	/tiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dí	dī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dik6	dai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*deːɡ  teː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dí
Middle Chinese	‹ dek ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁek/
English	(name of a northern tribe)
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	狄	鞮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2206	11612
Phonetic component	狄	是
Rime group	錫	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	荻	低
Old Chinese	/*deːɡ/	/*teː/

Noun

狄鞮

1. (historical) government official in charge of translating from and into the speech of non-Chinese ethnic groups in China's west (Di)

   • 達其志，通其欲：東方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰譯。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     达其志，通其欲：东方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰译。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Dá qí zhì, tōng qí yù: dōngfāng yuē jì, nánfāng yuē xiàng, xīfāng yuē dídī, běifāng yuē yì. [Pinyin]

     To make what was in their minds apprehended, and to communicate their likings and desires, (there were officers) - in the east, called transmitters; in the south, representationists; in the west, Di-dis; and in the north, interpreters.

Synonyms

• 寄 (jì)
• 象 (xiàng)
• 譯／译 (yì)