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Chinese

帶

dài
belt; ribbon; tape (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  • Pictogram
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 2
  • radical 巾
  • 11 strokes
  • 塊
  • 處
  • 块
  • 处

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Origin

Pictogram (象形) - a woven belt.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-daːj (“waist; belt; zone; flat expanse”). Cognate with Tibetan སྡེ (sde, “part; portion; district”) and Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-day³ (“level expanse; plain”). Also compare the phonologically similar Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-taj (“naval; abdomen; center; self”).

The internet slang usage in lieu of 大 is a written rendering of internet streamer Sun Xiaochuan's Sichuan-influenced Standard Mandarin (四川普通话) accent.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • inheritedProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-daːj “waist; belt; zone; flat expanse”

Related: Tibetan སྡེ, Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-day³

Meanings

character
  1. belt; ribbon; tape (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  2. tyre
  3. zone; area; belt
  4. cassette (Classifier: 餅／饼 c)
  5. leucorrhoea
  6. to take; to bring along; to carry

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

帶：紳也。男子鞶帶，婦人帶絲。象繫佩之形。佩必有巾，从巾。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 繫紮物品所用的長條物。 例：衣帶、腰帶、鞋帶
  2. 泛指長條狀的物體。 例：海帶、臍帶、磁帶
  3. 地球表面依緯度劃分的氣候區。 例：溫帶、熱帶、寒帶
  4. 地區、區域。 例：高山地帶、沿海一帶
  5. 佩掛。 例：佩帶
  6. 隨身攜著、拿著。 例：明天郊遊時，請大家自行攜帶食物。

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 帶 was written 字形演變

  1. 帶 in Oracle bone script
    Oracle bone
    甲骨文
    Shang, c. 1250–1050 BCE
  2. 帶 in Bronze script
    Bronze
    金文
    Shang–Zhou
  3. 帶 in Chu slips & silk script
    Chu slips & silk
    楚系簡帛
    Warring States
  4. 帶 in Qin slips script
    Qin slips
    秦系簡牘
    Qin
  5. 帶 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  6. 帶 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 帶