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楔

楔

Translingual

Han character

楔 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木手竹大 (DQHK), four-corner 47934, composition ⿰木契)

  1. wedge
  2. gatepost
  3. foreword

References

  • KangXi: page 539, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15131
  • Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1242, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6954

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 楔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯 *kreːds
瘛 *kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢 *ɡjeds
契 *kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔 *kʰeːds
禊 *ɡeːds
稧 *ɡeːds
楔 *kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜 *kʰreːd
猰 *qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫 *qreːd
揳 *sqʰeːd
偰 *sqʰeːd
潔 *keːd
絜 *keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥 *keːd, *kʰeːd
挈 *kʰeːd
蛪 *kʰeːd
齧 *ŋeːd
褉 *qʰeːd
喫 *ŋ̥ʰeːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 楔 楔
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 鎋 (75) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II IV
Fanqie 古黠切 先結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛt̚/ /set̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæt̚/ /set̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kæt̚/ /sɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨt̚/ /sɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɛt̚/ /set̚/
Wang
Li		 /kæt̚/ /siet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kat̚/ /siet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jia xie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 楔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ set ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.qˤet/
English wedge put in teeth of corpse

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 楔 楔
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6498 6504
Phonetic
component		 丯 丯
Rime
group		 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 戛 屑
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːd/ /*sqʰeːd/

Definitions

楔

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Japanese

Kanji

楔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
楔
くさび
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi
  • IPA(key): [kɯᵝsa̠bi]

Noun

楔 ‎(hiragana くさび, romaji kusabi)

  1. wedge

Korean

Hanja

楔 • ‎(seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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Vietnamese

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