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狹

狹

See also: 狭

Translingual

Han character

狹 (radical 94 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹大人人 (KHKOO), four-corner 44238, composition ⿰犭夾)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 711, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20428
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1348, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+72F9

Chinese

trad. 狹
simp. 狭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瘞 *qrebs
瘱 *qeːbs
脥 *kʰemʔ
浹 *skaːb, *skeːb
挾 *skaːb, *ɡeːb
夾 *kreːb
郟 *kreːb
筴 *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
裌 *kreːb
鵊 *kreːb
狹 *ɡreːb
峽 *ɡreːb
硤 *ɡreːb
陜 *ɡreːb
陿 *ɡreːb
翜 *sraːb, *srɯːb
梜 *kraːb, *keːb
頰 *keːb
莢 *keːb
鋏 *keːb
蛺 *keːb
唊 *keːb
悏 *kʰeːb
匧 *kʰeːb
愜 *kʰeːb
篋 *kʰeːb
俠 *ɡeːb
綊 *ɡeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡreːb) : semantic 犭 ‎(“dog”) + phonetic 夾 ‎(OC *kreːb) – narrow-minded, like a dog.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 狹
Mandarin Beijing /ɕia³⁵/
Harbin /ɕia²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕia⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕia⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕia⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕia²⁴/
Xining /ɕia²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕia⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕia⁵³/
/t͡ɕʰia¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕia⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕia²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕia³¹/
Guiyang /ɕia²¹/
Kunming /ɕia̠³¹/
Nanjing /ɕiɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiaʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /ɕiʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕia³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦaʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦaʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦiɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /ɦa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /xa²²/
Tunxi /xɔ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕia²⁴/
Xiangtan /xɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /haʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /hap̚⁵/
Taoyuan /hiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hap̚³/
Nanning /hap̚³³/
Hong Kong /hap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hap̚⁵/
/ueʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xa²⁴/
/kiɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiap̚⁵/
/oiʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiap̚³/
/kiap̚³/
Rime
Character 狹
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 洽 (152)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 侯夾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦəɨp̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɐp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 狹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛp ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-kˤ<r>ep/
English narrow

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 狹
Reading # 1/1
No. 5896
Phonetic
component		 夾
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 洽
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreːb/

Definitions

狹

  1. narrow; limited
  2. narrow-minded

Compounds

  • 促狹／促狭
  • 促狹鬼／促狭鬼
  • 偏狹／偏狭
  • 偏狹小器／偏狭小器
  • 冤家路狹／冤家路狭
  • 天窄地狹／天窄地狭
  • 寬狹／宽狭
  • 心胸狹窄／心胸狭窄 (xīnxiōng xiázhǎi)
  • 狷狹／狷狭
  • 狹長／狭长 (xiácháng)
  • 狹隘／狭隘 (xiá'ài)
  • 狹韻／狭韵
  • 相逢狹路／相逢狭路
  • 窄狹／窄狭
  • 褊狹／褊狭
  • 褊狹小器／褊狭小器
  • 西狹頌／西狭颂

Japanese

Kanji

狹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

狹 • ‎(hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune-Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

狹 (hẹp)

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