踟躕

Chinese

Cognate with 躑躅 (*dek dok), 躊躇 (*du da), 彳亍 (*tʰek tʰok), all meaning "walking slowly or with difficulty > hesitant".

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	踟	躕
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí	chú
Middle Chinese	‹ drje ›	‹ drju ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]re/	/*[d]ro/
English	踟躕 *[d]re.[d]ro walk hesitatingly	踟躕 drje.drjo walk hesitatingly
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

踟躕

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