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怯
怯
Translingual
Han character
怯 (radical 61 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心土戈 (PGI), four-corner 94031, composition ⿰忄去)
References
- KangXi: page 382, character 18
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10491
 - Dae Jaweon: page 712, character 8
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2283, character 6
 - Unihan data for U+602F
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
怯 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (去) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 佉 | *kʰal | 
| 呿 | *kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab | 
| 抾 | *kʰɯ, *kʰɯ, *kʰab | 
| 弆 | *kaʔ, *kʰaʔ | 
| 祛 | *kʰa | 
| 袪 | *kʰa | 
| 阹 | *kʰa | 
| 胠 | *kʰa, *kʰas, *kʰab | 
| 魼 | *kʰa, *kʰl'aːb | 
| 去 | *kʰaʔ, *kʰas | 
| 麮 | *kʰaʔ, *kʰas | 
| 鼁 | *kʰas | 
| 砝 | *kaːb, *kab | 
| 劫 | *kab, *kab | 
| 鉣 | *kab | 
| 蜐 | *kab, *kab | 
| 怯 | *kʰab | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄝˋ
 - Wade-Giles: ch'ieh4
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chieh
 -  IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
 - Wade-Giles: ch'üeh4
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰɥ̯œ⁵¹/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hip3
 - Yale: hip
 - Cantonese Pinyin: hip8
 - IPA (key): /hiːp̚³/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiap
 - Tâi-lô: khiap
 - Phofsit Daibuun: qiab
 - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiap̚³²/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiap̚⁵/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiap̚³²/
 - IPA (Taipei): /kʰiap̚³²/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiap̚³²/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 怯 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | 
/t͡ɕʰie⁵¹/  /t͡ɕʰye⁵¹/  | 
| Harbin | 
/t͡ɕʰiɛ⁵³/  /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵³/  | 
|
| Tianjin | /t͡ɕʰie⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡ɕʰiə²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡ɕʰiə⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡ɕʰiɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡ɕʰiɛ²¹/ | |
| Xining | /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡ɕʰie¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡ɕʰiə¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡ɕʰyɤ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡ɕʰie²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡ɕʰie³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡ɕʰie²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡ɕʰiɛ³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡ɕʰieʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡ɕʰiɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡ɕʰiəʔ²/ | 
| Pingyao | /t͡ɕʰiʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 
/t͡ɕʰiɪʔ⁵/  /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵/  | 
| Suzhou | /t͡ɕʰiəʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡ɕʰiəʔ⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡ɕʰa²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕʰieʔ²¹/ | 
| Tunxi | ||
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡ɕʰie²⁴/ | 
| Xiangtan | /t͡ɕʰie²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kʰiap̚¹/ | 
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /hip̚³/ | 
| Nanning | /hip̚³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /hip̚³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /kʰiap̚³²/ | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kʰiɛʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kʰiɛ²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰiap̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hiap̚⁵/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 怯 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) | 
| Final (韻) | 業 (147) | 
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 去劫切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/kʰɨɐp̚/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/kʰiɐp̚/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/kʰiɐp̚/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/kʰɨap̚/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/kʰiap̚/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/kʰĭɐp̚/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/kʰi̯ɐp̚/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
qie | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 怯 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 10698 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
去 | 
| Rime group  | 
盍 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
怯 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*kʰab/ | 
| Notes | 說文同㹤 | 
Definitions
怯
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References
- “Query for 怯”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
 
Japanese
Kanji
怯
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
怯 • (geop) (hangeul 겁, revised geop, McCune-Reischauer kŏp, Yale kep)
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Vietnamese
Han character
怯 (khiếp, khép)
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