# 慝

| 慝 | U+615D, &#24925; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-615D |
| ← 慜 [U+615C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 慞 → [U+615E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

慝 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口心 (SRP), four-corner 7133$_1$, composition ⿱匿心)
* do evil in secret
* evil, vice

#### Derived characters

* 嬺, 𰔸

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 399, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11100
* Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2333, character 1
* Unihan data for U+615D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 暱 | *niɡ |
| 慝 | *n̥ʰɯːɡ |
| 匿 | *nɯɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): tè (te$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄊㄜˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): tik$^1$ / nik$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: tè
*** Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: tè
*** Wade–Giles: tʻê$^4$
*** Yale: tè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teh
*** Palladius: тэ (tɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɤ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: tik$^1$ / nik$^1$
*** Yale: tīk / nīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tik$^7$ / nik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tig$^1$ / nig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚⁵/
* Middle Chinese: thok
Rime :
| Character | 慝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 他德切 |
| Baxter | thok |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /tʰək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /tʰək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tʰək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tʰək̚/ |
| Li Rong | /tʰək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /tʰək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /tʰək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | te |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | tak$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ˤək/
    (Zhengzhang): /*n̥ʰɯːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 慝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | tè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ thok › |
| Old Chinese | /*n̥ˁək/ |
| English | evil |
| 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 | 慝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9480 |
| Phonetic component | 匿 |
| Rime group | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 忒 |
| Old Chinese | /*n̥ʰɯːɡ/ |

### Definitions

慝
* vice, evil, malevolence
    From: 1st century BCE, 《新序》
    Cǐ niǎo bù fěi, yǐ cháng yǔyì; bù míng, yǐ guān qúnchén zhī tè, shì niǎo suī bù fěi, fěi bì chōngtiān; suī bù míng, míng bì jīngrén. [Pinyin]
    This bird does not fly, and thereby grows its wings. It does not sing, and thereby watches [in secret] the vices of the king and his ministers. Though this bird does not fly, when it flies, it will surely pierce the heavens. Though it does not sing, when it sings, it will surely astonish the people.
* Alternative form of 忒

#### Compounds

* 奸慝
* 姦慝／奸慝
* 引慝
* 淫心慝行
* 淑慝殊途
* 苛慝
* 讒慝／谗慝
* 隱慝／隐慝

### References

* “慝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): とく (toku)
* Kun: わるい (warui)

## Korean
### Hanja

慝 (eum 특 (teuk))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

慝: Hán Nôm readings: nấc, nức, thắc
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#### References

* Nom Foundation