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| − | <WL>帝 [dì] emperor; 帝国 dìguó empire; 上帝 Shàngdì God | + | <WL>帝 [dì] emperor; 帝国 dìguó empire; 上帝 Shàngdì God@@; (HDZ:) 君主, 皇帝; … |
#i3 | #i3 | ||
| − | The bottom | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 帝() dì ‘king/god’ is said to combine 亠(𠄞丄上) shàng ‘(heavens/sky) high/above’, and 朿() cì ‘thorn-bush’ (abbrev. phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𢂇(), in which the upper ‘heavens/sky’ component is a single horizontal stoke 一, as in 𥘅(示) and 不(𠀚). |
| − | + | Note: In the component 朿() the top thorny branch of 木() ‘tree’ is replaced with 𠄞/上 ‘heavens/sky’ (cf. 末); 朿() here functions as in 责/責(𧵩) zé ‘duty’ (thorny/difficult); the central lines 冖 of 帝() suggest 冂() jiōng ‘remote city outskirts’ (wide dominion), as in 冋(坰) at the bottom of 高(). | |
| − | #rG.370.31 W.120h K.AD986,GSR877a D.1.738.2 M.6204 KX..330.14 B.128.1.04 | + | Compare: 示(𥘅) shì ‘celestial bodies, heavens’; 不(𠀚) bù ‘no (higher)’; 责/責(𧵩) zé ‘require (payment); (thorny) requirement/duty’. |
| − | # | + | Note: The SW entry for 帝() dì ‘king/god’ begins with a pun on 谛/諦() dì ‘examine closely; know/understand (truth)’ (sage king), suggesting that 帝 was seen as phonosemantic in 諦, cf. 諟(). |
| − | #y dai-</WL> | + | In the modern form 帝 the top part (as in 旁) looks like 立, but with 冖 below instead of 一; the bottom part looks like 巾() ‘cloth’. |
| + | Older graphs associated with 帝 (and 巾 ‘cloth’) are sometimes said depict the emperor's “flowing robes and a fine head-gear”—Karlgren(AD). | ||
| + | Compare: 带/帶() dài ‘(man's leather, or woman's silk) belt’ (紳). | ||
| + | Compare: 蒂(蔕) dì, 缔(締) dì, 啇(啻) dì (all with 帝 phonetic). | ||
| + | Compare: 啇(啻), which is phonetic in 滴 dī ‘drip’, 嫡 dí, 敵(敌) dí, 適(适) shì. | ||
| + | Compare: 商(𠾃𡃬𡄚) shāng ‘estimate/weigh/appraise (value of goods, in trade/commerce)’, also an old dynasty name (商代). | ||
| + | Compare: 帝() dì ‘king/god’, 地() dì ‘earth’; homophones today, but MC 帝 /tis/, vs. 地 /dieis/ (SBGY). | ||
| + | HDZ: 帝 : dì : 君主, 皇帝; 天神, (古) 人或宗教徒称宇庙的创造者和主宰者为帝 (上帝, 天帝, 玉皇大帝); 天; 主, 主体; (古) 据有天下; (简称) 帝国主义; (祭名) 禘; 諦: 审谛 (cf. 諟); 定 (dìng) | ||
| + | HDC: 上帝 : 天帝; 君主, 帝王; 远古的帝王; 先帝; (基督教) … | ||
| + | HDC: 天帝 : 上帝; 皇帝; (县名) 帝星, 北极五星之最明者 | ||
| + | HDC: 帝王 : 君主, 国家的最高统治者; (并称) 五帝和三王 (三王: 夏, 殷, 周) | ||
| + | HDC: 五帝 : (上古) (传说) 五位帝王, 说法不一 (⑴ 黄帝(轩辕), 颛顼(高阳), 帝喾(高辛), 唐尧, 虞舜; ⑵ 太昊(伏羲), 炎帝(神农), 黄帝, 少昊(挚), 颛顼; ⑶ 少昊, 颛顼, 高辛, 唐尧, 虞舜); (古) 五方天帝 | ||
| + | #rG.370.31 W.120h K.AD986,GSR877a D.1.738.2 M.6204 KX..330.14 B.128.1.04 E.1 | ||
| + | #c巾亣亠冖立冂 | ||
| + | #y dai- | ||
| + | </WL> | ||
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