翟
Meanings
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- 1.surname Di
- 2.variant of 狄[Dí], generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
- 1.surname Zhai
- 1.long-tail pheasant
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Wiktionary
- 1.a long-tailed species of pheasant
- 2.pheasant plumes used in dances
- 3.things decorated with pheasant plumes
- 4.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 羽 (“feather”) + 隹 (“bird”). Schuessler (2007) suggests that the name of the long-tailed pheasant is related to 濯 (OC *d-liauk, “clean, brilliant, glossy; to moisten, to wash”) and its exopassive 濯 (OC *d-liaukh, “to wash clothes”) owing to the birds' shiny feathers. See there for further etymology. STEDT derives this from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rik ~ *s-rjak (“pheasant, partridge”), for which see 雉 (OC *l'iʔ, “pheasant”) for more. Goldin (2011) proposes that 翟 (dí) and 狄 (dí, “northern foreigners”) are related, 狄 (dí) being a "pseudo-ethnonym" meaning "feathered".
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