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Translingual

Han character

(radical 68 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人木卜十 (ODYJ), four-corner 84900, composition)

  1. the Xie River in ancient China

References

  • KangXi: page 478, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13509
  • Dae Jaweon: page 836, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2253, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+659C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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 /ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /siə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /siɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕie⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕiə⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /ɕie²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /sie²⁴/
Hefei /ɕi⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕie̞¹³/
Hohhot /ɕie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ʑia²³/
Suzhou /ziɑ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiɑ²¹³/
Wenzhou /zei³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sa²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /sie¹³/
/sia¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡ziɒ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰia¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰiɑ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɛ²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɛ²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɛ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sia³⁵/
/t͡sʰia³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰiɑ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sia²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sia⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tia³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (36) (17)
Final () (100) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jia/ /zia/
Pan
Wuyun
/jia/ /zia/
Shao
Rongfen
/ia/ /zia/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jia/ /zia/
Li
Rong
/ia/ /zia/
Wang
Li
/jĭa/ /zĭa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯a/ /zi̯a/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xié
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15746 15762
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lja/ /*laː/

Adjective

  1. tilted
    比薩 / 比萨   Bǐsà Xié   the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  2. sloping, inclined
  3. oblique; slanting
    /    xié   oblique type
  4. (Chinese calligraphy) a bend to the right (such as in , , or )

Coordinate terms

Compounds

  • 一溜歪斜
  • 乜乜斜斜
  • 乜斜 (miēxie)
  • 乜斜眼
  • 乜斜纏帳乜斜缠帐
  • 偏斜
  • 傾斜倾斜 (qīngxié)
  • 傾斜流倾斜流
  • 傾斜角倾斜角
  • 內斜視内斜视
  • 刺斜 (cìxié)
  • 同斜層同斜层
  • 向斜層向斜层
  • 喎斜㖞斜
  • 單斜層单斜层
  • 單斜脊单斜脊
  • 大陸斜坡大陆斜坡
  • 挑斜岔兒挑斜岔儿
  • 攲斜 (qīxié)
  • 斜坡 (xiépō)
  • 斜射
  • 斜度
  • 斜度標斜度标
  • 斜暉斜晖
  • 斜溫層斜温层
  • 斜漢斜汉
  • 斜照
  • 斜眼 (xiéyǎn)
  • 斜睨
  • 斜紋斜纹 (xiéwén)
  • 斜紋夜蛾斜纹夜蛾
  • 斜線斜线
  • 斜腳雨斜脚雨
  • 斜視斜视 (xiéshì)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(sa, ya) (hangeul , , revised sa, ya, McCune-Reischauer sa, ya, Yale sa, ya)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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