笛

笛 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹中田 (HLW), four-corner 8860₃, composition ⿰𥫗由)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 879, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25917
• Dae Jaweon: page 1307, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2955, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7B1B

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯːwɢ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).

Cognate with 籥 (OC *lowɢ, “bamboo flute”) (Baxter, 1992).

笛

1. flute
2. whistle
3. (Hakka, Leizhou Min) suona

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(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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• 横(おう)笛(じゃく) (ōjaku)
• 横(よう)笛(じょう) (yōjō)

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value): a painting from the 1100s showing a noble playing a flute.

⟨puye⟩ → */puje/ → /ɸue/ → /fue/

From Old Japanese, first cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[1]

Likely related to the verb 吹く (fuku, “to blow”).

• (Tokyo) ふえ [fùé] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝe̞]

笛(ふえ) • (fue) 

1. [from 720] (music) a flute, whistle, pipe
2. [from 934] (anatomy, rare) a windpipe
3. [from early 1200s] (music) a side-blown flute, as opposed to end-blown instruments such as the 篳篥 (hichiriki)
4. a whistle such as that used by a referee
5. [from 1910] a train whistle

• 笛(ふえ)吹(ふ)けども踊(おど)らず (fue fukedomo odorazu)

From Middle Chinese 笛 (MC dek). The 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”), so likely a later borrowing.

First cited to a text from the 1400s.[1] This reading appears to have fallen out of use.

• (Tokyo) て​き [téꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [te̞kʲi]

笛(てき) • (teki) 

1. flute, whistle

笛(てき) • (teki) 

1. [1400s–???] (music, archaic, possibly obsolete) a flute, particularly the Chinese side-blown flute

From a corruption of Middle Chinese 笛 (MC dek).

First cited to a text from 1241.[1]

• (Tokyo) ちゃ​く [cháꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

笛(ちゃく) • (chaku) 

1. [from 1241] (archaic, music) a flute, whistle

笛 • (jeok) (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune–Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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笛: Hán Nôm readings: địch, sáo

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