甾

甾 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女女田 (VVW), four-corner 2260₀, composition ⿱巛田)

• 崰, 椔, 淄, 㿳, 䅔, 緇(缁), 䎩, 䐉, 輜(辎), 錙(锱), 鯔(鲻), 㓯, 䣎, 鶅(𱊎), 疀, 菑
• 𤉣, 𪺟, 𥓲, 𥚉, 𧱥, 𩋝, 𩜊, 𩗮, 𨿴, 𪋍, 𤱽, 𤱾, 𤳤, 𤲑, 𤳊, 𤳫, 𤳲, 𤳯, 𤴅, 𧇄, 𡙂, 𡸟, 𣓩, 𤲙, 𧑳
• 𭘦, 𭸖, 𰏛, 𮖓, 𮪌, 𰏆, 𰃱, 𫳗, 𰣇, 𫻾, 𬌊, 𬯞

• 湽, 輺, 鍿, 𤱹, 葘, 𧇕, 𦿨

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21742
• Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2531, character 5
• Unihan data for U+753E
• Unihan data for U+2F936

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsrɯ) : phonetic 𠙹 + semantic 田 (“cropfield”), attested since Qin State of Warring States period. Evolved later into various different shapes – ⿱𠀐田, 𱰭, and 甾 (Chen, 2021).

The "container" sense was of a different character – 𠙹 – attested since oracle bones script. This sense was conflated with 甾 later, as in Middle Chinese rime books (ibid.) See the entry 𠙹 for more.

The basic structure of steroids (甾), featuring the tetracyclic backbone with three side chains.

This character was practically obsolete before it was revived as a modern translation for steroid. It is also a pictogram (象形) in this sense; the upper part represents the three side chains on the ring system, and the 田 component represents the tetracyclic core of steroids. See the image on right.

Smith (2011) interprets the oracle bone glyph as depicting the new moon and proposes that it originally wrote a word *ts[r]əʔ "darkened phase" i.e. "new moon", related to 緇 (OC *tsrə) "blackened", 菑 (OC *tsrə) "field cleared by slash and burn", 淄 (OC *tsrə) "murky (water)". Lunar meaning is also present in 臘／腊 (là) of which this character is the upper-right component.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Who and when repurposed this character as steroid though?”)

甾

1. Alternative form of 𠙹 (zī, “a kind of container”)
2. (～水) Original form of 淄 (zī, “Zi River, a river in Shandong province”).
3. Alternative form of 𨿴 (“a kind of pheasant”)
4. Alternative form of 菑 (“one-year-old cropfield”)
5. (historical) An ancient placename.

甾

1. Alternative form of 災／灾 (zāi, “calamity; disaster”)
2. (～族, ～體) (biochemistry) steroid

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: さい (sai); し (shi)
• Kan-on: さい (sai); し (shi)
• Kun: かめ (kame, 甾)

甾 • (jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune–Reischauer chae)

1. pheasant
2. an ancient pottery
3. calamity

甾: Hán Nôm readings: tai

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