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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 62 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿戈 (YTI), four-corner 23250, composition)

References


Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
*qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
*qʰra
*qʰra
*qʰras
*b·raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː, *ra
*b·raː
*b·raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*raː
*b·raː
*raː
*raː
*raːʔ
*raːʔ
*raːʔ
*raːʔ
*qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
*qʰaː
*qʰʷlaː
*qʰlaːʔ
*qʰlaːʔ
*qʰlaːʔ
*b·ra
*ra
*b·ra
*ra
*ra, *ras
*ra, *ras
*raʔ
*ras
*ras
*ras
*ras
*r̥ʰa
*kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
*kas, *ɡa
*kas
*kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
*kas, *ɡas
*kʰa, *qʰa
*kʰa
*ɡa
*ɡa, *ɡʷa
*ɡa
*ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
*ɡa
*ɡaʔ
*ɡas
*ɡas
*qʰa, *qʰas
*qʰa
*qʰa
*qʰa
*pla
*kʰʷral
*ɡaɡ
*ɡaɡ
*ɡaɡ
*qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː) : phonetic  + semantic .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕi⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕi⁵³/
Jinan /ɕi²¹/
Qingdao /ɕi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕi³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕi⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕji²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕi⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕi³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕi¹³/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕi⁴⁴/
Hefei /sz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕi³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /sz̩⁴²/
Hui Shexian /ɕi³²⁴/
Tunxi /ɕi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ɕi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hi⁵³/
Taoyuan /hi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hei³³/
Nanning /hi³³/
Hong Kong /hei³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hi²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hi²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hi³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (32) (32) (32)
Final () (13) (23) (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () Chongniu III I Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hˠiᴇ/ /huo/ /hˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hᵚiɛ/ /huo/ /hᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiɛ/ /xo/ /xiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hjiə̆/ /hɔ/ /hjiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/xje/ /xo/ /xjeH/
Wang
Li
/xǐe/ /xu/ /xǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xie̯/ /xuo/ /xie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjeH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋ̊(r)ar-s/
English sport, joke

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 5194 5195 5227
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰral/ /*qʰrals/ /*qʰaː/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to play; to amuse; to have fun
  2. to tease; to chaff
  3. theatrical play; show; theater; opera   (Classifier: ; m)
    Synonyms: ()
  4. (figuratively) interesting part; hope

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hui) (hangeul , revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, , hi, )

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