# 柢

| 柢 | U+67E2, &#26594; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67E2 |
| ← 柡 [U+67E1] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 柣 → [U+67E3] |

## Translingual
### Han character

柢 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹心一 (DHPM) or 木竹女戈 (DHVI), four-corner 4294$_0$, composition ⿰木氐)
* root
* base
* bottom of object

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 520, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14640
* Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1186, character 8
* Unihan data for U+67E2

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 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 |

### Etymology

Cognate with 低 (OC *tiːl, “to lower; lower”), 底 (OC *tiːlʔ, “bottom”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dǐ (di$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dai$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dǐ
*** Wade–Giles: ti$^3$
*** Yale: dǐ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dii
*** Palladius: ди (di)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dai$^2$
*** Yale: dái
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dai$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dei$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɐi̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tej, tejX, tejH
Rime :
| Character | 柢 | 柢 | 柢 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 端 (5) | 端 (5) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 齊 (39) | 齊 (39) | 齊 (39) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | IV | IV |
| Fanqie | 都奚切 | 都禮切 | 都計切 |
| Baxter | tej | tejX | tejH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tei/ | /tei$^X$/ | /tei$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tei/ | /tei$^X$/ | /tei$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tɛi/ | /tɛi$^X$/ | /tɛi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tɛj/ | /tɛj$^X$/ | /tɛj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /tei/ | /tei$^X$/ | /tei$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /tiei/ | /tiei$^X$/ | /tiei$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /tiei/ | /tiei$^X$/ | /tiei$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | dī | dǐ | dì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | dai$^1$ | dai$^2$ | dai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*tiːl/, /*tiːlʔ/, /*tiːls/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 柢 | 柢 | 柢 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 2242 | 2250 | 2253 |
| Phonetic component | 氐 | 氐 | 氐 |
| Rime group | 脂 | 脂 | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 低 | 邸 | 帝 |
| Old Chinese | /*tiːl/ | /*tiːlʔ/ | /*tiːls/ |

### Definitions

柢
* root (of a tree)
* origin; foundation

#### Compounds

* 根柢 (gēndǐ)
* 根深柢固 (gēnshēndǐgù)
* 歸根究柢／归根究柢 (guīgēnjiūdǐ)
* 歸根結柢／归根结柢 (guīgēnjiédǐ)
* 深根固柢
* 追根究柢 (zhuīgēnjiūdǐ)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* root
* founded on

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): てい (tei)
* Kun: ね (ne)

#### Compounds

* 根柢(こんてい) (kontei)

## Korean
### Hanja

柢 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)
* root
* bottom, base

## Vietnamese
### Han character

柢: Hán Nôm readings: đề, đế, để
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