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解

解

See also: 觧

Translingual

Han character

解 (radical 148 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓月尸竹手 (NBSHQ), four-corner 27252, composition ⿰角⿱刀牛)

References

  • KangXi: page 1142, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35067
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1608, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3925, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+89E3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 解

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 解
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (解) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
薢 *kreː, *kreːʔ, *kreːs
解 *kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs
檞 *kreːʔ
懈 *kreːs
繲 *kreːs
廨 *kreːs
蟹 *ɡreːʔ
獬 *ɡreːʔ
澥 *ɡreːʔ
嶰 *ɡreːʔ
邂 *ɡreːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 角 ‎(“horn”) + 刀 ‎(“knife”) + 牛 ‎(“cow”) – a knife separates a horn from a cow, i.e. “cut up (an ox)”.

Etymology

Three pronunciations are cognate. "To loosen; to disengage" > "idle, lazy, remiss". Cognate with 懈 (OC *kreːs, “lazy, remiss”) and possibly 邂逅 (*ɡreːs ɡroːs, “carefree and happy”).

? Area stem: *C-re. Compare Burmese ဖြေ ‎(hpre, “to untie; to answer; to ease; to absolve”), အဖြေ ‎(a.hpre, “answer, solution; response; explication”); Khmer រាយ ‎(réay, “to scatter, to be divided up, to separate”), ស្រាយ ‎(sray, “to untie, to undo, to explain, to solve”).

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 解 (解開)
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ²¹⁴/
Harbin /kai²¹³/
/t͡ɕiɛ²¹³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie¹³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁵³/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ⁵³/
Xining /kɛ⁵³/
Yinchuan /kɛ⁵³/
/t͡ɕie⁵³/
Lanzhou /kɛ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
/kai⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie⁴²/ 瓦～
/kai⁴²/ ～手
Chengdu /kai⁵³/
/t͡ɕiai⁵³/
Guiyang /kai⁴²/
Kunming /kæ⁵³/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiɛ²¹²/
Hefei /t͡ɕie̞²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie⁵³/
Pingyao /t͡ɕie̞⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕie⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ka³⁵/
Suzhou /gɑ³¹/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕie̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /ka³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕia³⁵/
/ka³⁵/
Tunxi /ka³¹/
Xiang Changsha /kai⁴¹/
Xiangtan /kai⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /kai²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kiai³¹/
Taoyuan /ke³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kai³⁵/
Nanning /kai³⁵/
Hong Kong /kai³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kai⁵³/
/kue⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kai²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /koi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kɔi²¹³/
Rime
Character 解
Reading # 2/4
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (31)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 佳買切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kæiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨjX/
Li
Rong		 /kɛX/
Wang
Li		 /kaiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kaiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǎ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 解
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiě
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤreʔ/
English cut up; unloose

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 解
Reading # 1/4
No. 6474
Phonetic
component		 解
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 解
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːʔ/

Definitions

解

  1. to loosen; to unfasten; to untie
    Antonyms: 繫／系 (jì), 結／结 (jié)
  2. to explain
  3. to excrete
  4. to remove; to eliminate
  5. to divide; to break up; to split; to separate
  6. to dissolve
  7. to solve
  8. to understand
  9. solution (to a problem)
  10. 40th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 解
Reading # 3/4
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (31)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古隘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /kɛH/
Wang
Li		 /kaiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jià
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 解
Reading # 2/4
No. 6478
Phonetic
component		 解
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 懈
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːs/

Definitions

解

  1. to introduce scholar to imperial palace
  2. to send under escort
    押解  ―  yājiè  ―  to take away under escort
  3. to mortgage
  4. to exchange (money)

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Rime
Character 解 解
Reading # 1/4 4/4
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 佳 (31) 佳 (31)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 胡買切 胡懈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛX/ /ɦˠɛH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæX/ /ɦᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣæiX/ /ɣæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨjX/ /ɦaɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛX/ /ɣɛH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣaiX/ /ɣaiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣaiX/ /ɣaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xià xià
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 解
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-kˤreʔ/
English understand

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 解 解
Reading # 3/4 4/4
No. 6483 6488
Phonetic
component		 解 解
Rime
group		 支 支
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蟹 邂
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːʔ/ /*ɡreːs/

Definitions

解

  1. beast's name
  2. local authorities
  3. skill of acrobatics
  4. Ancient placename.
  5. Alternative form of 懈 (xiè, “to relax”).
  6. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

解

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. solution, untie

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

解 • ‎(hae, gae) (hangeul 해, 개, revised hae, gae, McCune-Reischauer hae, kae, Yale hay, kay)

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Compounds

  • 해약 (解約)

Vietnamese

Han character

解 (giải, giãi)

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