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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈廿火 (TITF), four-corner 44231, composition)

  1. sugar cane

References

  • KangXi: page 1054, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31794
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1517, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3283, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8517

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zljaːɡs
*tjaː
*tjaːɡs
*tjaːɡs
*tjaːɡs, *hljaɡs
*tjaːɡs, *tjaːɡ
*tjaːɡs
*daː, *daːɡs
*daːɡs, *daːɡ
*daːɡs
*hljaɡs
*daːɡ
*daːɡ
*daːɡ
*tjaɡ
*ljaːɡ
*ljaːɡ
*tjaːɡ
*tjaːɡ
*tjaːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (100)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciaH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiaH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭaH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯aH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhè
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyæH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tAk-s/
English sugarcane

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 # 1/1
No. 11896
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjaːɡs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. sugarcane

Compounds

  • 蔗汁

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sugar cane

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ja) (hangeul , revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

  1. sugar cane