兌

兌 U+514C, 兌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-514C ← 克 [U+514B] CJK Unified Ideographs 免 → [U+514D]

兌 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 金口竹山 (CRHU), four-corner 8021₆, composition ⿱八兄)

• 說, 稅, 悅, 脫, 銳, 閱, 敓, 蛻

• 兑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 124, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1356
• Dae Jaweon: page 264, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 271, character 1
• Unihan data for U+514C

trad.		兌/兑*
simp.		兑*
alternative forms		兊 𠫞

In the oracle bone script, it is a ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 八 (“speech; breath”) + 口 (“mouth”) + 人 (“person”) – speech; original character of 說 (OC *hljod, “to speak”). It is also a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'oːds) : phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon) + semantic 人 (“person”).

Alternatively, 八 may be interpreted as smile lines above the mouth (Gao Hongjin) or as meaning “to divide” (Lin Yiguang, i.e. the mouth is divided when smiling); in either case, the character would be the original character of 悅 (OC *lod, “pleased”).

兌

1. to exchange
2. to dilute (with a fluid)

   兌水／兑水  ―  duì shuǐ  ―  to dilute with water

   • 韋四太爺就叫把這罈酒拿出來，兌上十斤新酒。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     韦四太爷就叫把这坛酒拿出来，兑上十斤新酒。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Wu Jingzi, The Scholars, 1750 CE

     Wéi sì tàiyé jiù jiào bǎ zhè tán jiǔ ná chūlái, duì shàng shí jīn xīn jiǔ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. ☱, the 2nd of the 8 trigrams
4. 58th hexagram of the I Ching
5. a surname

For pronunciation and definitions of 兌 – see 銳 (“sharp; keen; acute; pointed; 14th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "penetration"; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 銳).

For pronunciation and definitions of 兌 – see 悅 (“pleased; contented; gratified; to be pleasing to; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 悅).

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. exchange

• On (unclassified): だ (da)、たい (tai)、えい (ei)
• Kun: かえる (kaeru)、よろこぶ (yorokobu)
• Nanori: とおる (tōru)、なおし (naoshi)

• 兌換(だかん) (dakan)

兌 • (tae, ye) (hangeul 태, 예, revised tae, ye, McCune–Reischauer t'ae, ye)

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兌: Hán Nôm readings: đoái, đoài

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