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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 60 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹人人一木 (HOOMD), four-corner 28294, composition)

  1. slowly, quietly, calmly
  2. composed, dignified
  3. A surname.

References

  • KangXi: page 367, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 690, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 825, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5F90

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*lja, *laː
*rlaː
*rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'
*rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'
*rlaː
*rlaː, *l'
*ɦlja
*hljaː
*hljaː, *la
*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
*hljaːʔ
*hljaːʔ, *hljaːs
*hljaːs
*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ
*l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las
*l̥ʰaː
*l̥ʰaː, *l'
*l'
*l'
*l'
*l'aː, *la
*l'aː, *l'a
*l'
*l'
*l'aː, *l̥ʰa
*l'
*lja
*lja
*ljaʔ
*ljaʔ
*l'a, *l'as
*rla
*rla
*rla
*ɦlja, *la
*hljaː
*hlja
*la
*la
*la
*la
*la
*las

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕy³⁵/
Harbin /ɕy²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕy⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕy⁴²/
Qingdao /sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sy⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕy²⁴/
Xining /ɕy²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕy⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕy⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕy⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕy²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹/
Kunming /ɕi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰy²⁴/
Hefei /sz̩ʷ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕy¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕy¹³/
Hohhot /ɕy³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑi²³/
Suzhou /zi¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ²¹³/
Wenzhou /zei³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sʰi⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /si¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕy¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰi¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰøy²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰy²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰøy²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su³⁵/
/t͡sʰi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sy⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sy²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (17)
Final () (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/zɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ziɔ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ziɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zɨə̆/
Li
Rong
/ziɔ/
Wang
Li
/zĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjo ›
Old
Chinese
/*sə.la/
English walk slowly

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. 15782
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lja/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. gradually

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: seo, McCune-Reischauer: sŏ, Yale: se)
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Vietnamese

Han character

(chờ, chừa, giờ, từ, thờ, xờ)

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