池

池 U+6C60, 池 ← 江[U+6C5F] CJK Unified Ideographs 污 →[U+6C61] Stroke order

池 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 水心木 (EPD), four-corner 34112, composition ⿰氵也)

• 𠲨, 𨦥, 𪢏, 𩶴, 𫇻, 筂, 𦈳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 606, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17141
• Dae Jaweon: page 1000, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1555, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C60

trad. 池 simp. # 池 alternative forms ⿰⿳巛巛巛也

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l’aːl, *l’al): semantic 氵 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Perhaps a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *lii (“pool; lake; pond”), whence Mizo li (“quiet, deep pool”) (STEDT).

池

1. pool; pond
2. moat
3. cistern
4. (computing) pool
5. a surname

• (pond):

• (moat):

池

1. only used in 虖池／呼池 (“Hutuo River”)

• “池”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “池”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 159.

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pond, lake, moat
2. object used for storage

• Go-on: じ (ji)←ぢ (di, historical)、だ (da)
• Kan-on: ち (chi, Jōyō)、た (ta)
• Kun: いけ (ike, 池, Jōyō)

Kanji in this term 池 いけGrade: 2 kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *ikay.

• (Tokyo) いけ [ìkéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2]
• IPA(key): [ike̞]

池(いけ) • (ike)

1. a pond (small lake or pool) 池(いけ)を乾(ほ)すike o hosudrain a pond
   • 言(い)うたちいかんちや　おらんくの池(いけ)にゃ潮(しお)吹(ふ)く魚(さかな)が　泳(およ)ぎよるiutachi ikanchiya oranku no ike nyashio fuku sakana ga oyogiyoru(please add an English translation of this example)
2. a pool (small amount of liquid in a surface)
3. (calligraphy) part of an inkstone where water is stored Synonym: 海 (umi)

• 池(いけ)に落(お)ちた犬(いぬ)はたたけ (ike ni ochita inu wa tatake)

• 硯(すずり) (suzuri, “inkstone”)
• 堀(ほり) (hori, “moat”)

池(いけ) • (Ike)

1. a surname

Kanji in this term 池 ちGrade: 2 kan’on

/tʲie/ → /ti/ → /t͡ɕi/

From Middle Chinese 池 (MC drje).

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ti⟩ in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).

• IPA(key): [t͡ɕi]

池(ち) • (Chi)

1. a surname

• “池”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

池 (eumhun 연못 지 (yeonmot ji))

1. pool, pond

池 (eumhun 이름 타 (ireum ta))

1. a surname

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: いち (ichi, 池)

Attested in the 沖縄語典 (Okinawa Goten, “Okinawan Dictionary”) as いち.[1]

From Proto-Japonic *ikay, cognate with Japanese 池(いけ) (ike).

池(いち) (ichi)

1. pond

池: Hán Nôm readings: trì, đìa

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