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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 77 +2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜一心 (YMP), four-corner 21110, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 574, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16259
  • Dae Jaweon: page 964, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1438, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6B64

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
*zreː
*zreː
*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
*zreːs
*zraːds
*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
*sʰeːʔ
*zeːʔ, *ʔse
*zeːs, *zes
*ʔse
*ʔse
*ʔse
*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
*ʔse, *ze
*ʔse, *sʰe
*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
*ʔseʔ
*sʰe
*sʰeʔ
*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
*sʰes
*ze
*ze, *zes
*ze, *zes
*ze
*ʔsre

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (stop) +  (person) – where a person stops; here.

Alternatively, this may be the original form of (OC *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ, “to stamp, to stop, to stand”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰieX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshjeX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]e(j)ʔ/
English this

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. 1724
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰeʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (literary) this
    號碼無法接通 / 号码无法接通   hàomǎ wúfǎ jiētōng.   This number cannot be reached.
  2. (literary) here
    /    Qǐng àn .   Please press here.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of (“this”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing
Taiwan
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu)
Zhuolan (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Quanzhou
Xiamen
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Chaozhou
Shantou
Wu Shanghai old-style obsolete
Dialectal synonyms of 這裡 (“here”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 這裡此處 more formal
Mandarin Beijing 這兒這兒合兒 colloquial這合兒 colloquial
Taiwan 這裡
Tianjin 這兒這兒合兒
Jinan 這裡
Xi'an 這搭兒
Wuhan 這裡、這塊、這塊歇
Chengdu 這兒
Yangzhou 這塊
Hefei 這塊、這蒿子
Cantonese Guangzhou 呢度呢處
Hong Kong 呢度呢處
Taishan 、該處、該埞
Yangjiang 、該處、該處塗
Gan Nanchang 箇𥚃
Hakka Meixian 這仔
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 這位
Liudui (S. Sixian) 這位、這息
Hsinchu (Hailu) 這位
Dongshi (Dabu) 這位、這位項
Zhuolan (Raoping) 這位
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 這位、
Jin Taiyuan 這裡
Min Dong Fuzhou 只塊、只裡、租塊
Min Nan Quanzhou 、這帶、這跡、這位、這搭
Xiamen 、這帶、這跡、這位、這搭
Zhangzhou 、這帶、這位、這位仔
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Tainan
Taichung
Yilan
Lukang
Sanxia
Kinmen
Magong
Hsinchu
Malaysia 這落
Chaozhou 只塊
Wu Shanghai 搿搭、搿搭塊、搿搭裡、迭搭 old-style、迭搭塊 old-style、迭搭裡 old-style
Suzhou 該搭、搿搭
Wenzhou 該頭、該柢、、彀宕
Xiang Changsha 咯裡、咯塊子
Shuangfeng 咯裡

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. Proximal demonstrative prefix, this (near speaker)

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(cha) (hangeul , revised cha, McCune-Reischauer ch'a, Yale cha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thử, nảy, thửa)

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