弟

Stroke order

弟 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 金弓中竹 (CNLH), four-corner 8022₇, composition ⿹弚丿)

• 俤, 㖒, 挮, 涕, 悌, 娣, 綈 (绨), 珶, 梯, 焍, 祶, 睇, 銻 (锑), 稊, 鮷, 豑, 豒, 剃, 鵜 (鹈), 晜, 罤, 鬀, 递

• KangXi: page 357, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9737
• Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 244, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5F1F

Ideogram (指事) : a string wrapped around a bobbin, something young boys probably did.

弟

1. younger brother
2. junior
3. (humble) I; me
4. Original form of 第 (dì, “sequence”).

• → Thai: ตี๋ (dtǐi, “younger brother”) (said by Chinese race)

• (younger brother):

• “Entry #3144”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
• “弟”, 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–

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: だい (dai, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: てい (tei, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: で (de, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: おと (oto, 弟); おとうと (otōto, 弟, Jōyō)

弟 (otōto): the orange highlighting indicates the younger brother relative to all of the children to the left.

/otopito/ → /otoɸito/ → /otowito/ → /*otowuto/ → /otouto/ → /otoːto/

Originally a compound of 弟 (oto, “younger sibling”) +‎ 人 (hito, “person”).[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) おとーと​ [òtóótóꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[3][2]
• IPA^(key): [o̞to̞ːto̞]

弟(おとうと) • (otōto) 

1. one’s own younger brother
2. a younger male

(alternative reading hiragana おとっ, rōmaji oto')

1. (Kagoshima) younger brother

Used when referring to one’s own younger brother. To refer to someone else’s younger brother, the suffixed form 弟さん (otōto-san) is used instead. When addressing one’s own younger brother, the given name is used, often with a suffix, such as 太郎君 (Tarō-kun). Contrast with addressing one’s own older brother, when one uses the honorific お兄さん (onīsan).

From Middle Chinese 弟 (MC dei^X).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕe̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [제(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 弟 (eumhun 아우 제 (au je))

1. Hanja form^? of 제 (“younger brother”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

弟: Hán Nôm readings: đệ, dễ

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