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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女口女戈火 (VRVIF), four-corner 46903)

  1. waste cotton, raw silk or cotton
  2. (less commonly) catkin or ament

References

  • KangXi: page 923, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27443
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1358, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3400, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7D6E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rnaː
*rnaː
*rnaː
*rnaː, *na
*rnaː, *naː, *naːs
*rnaː, *na
*rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
*rnaːw
*rnaːw
*n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
*naː
*naː, *naːʔ
*naː
*naː
*naːʔ
*naːʔ
*naːʔ, *naːs
*na
*na
*naʔ, *nas
*naʔ
*hnjas
*nja, *njas
*nja, *njaʔ, *njas
*nja, *njas
*nja
*nja
*njaʔ
*njaʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Initial () (16) (12) (10) (8)
Final () (22) (22) (22) (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () III III III II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨʌH/ /ɳɨʌH/ /ʈʰɨʌH/ /nˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɔH/ /ɳiɔH/ /ʈʰiɔH/ /nᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɔH/ /niɔH/ /ȶʰiɔH/ /naH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨə̆H/ /ɳɨə̆H/ /ʈʰɨə̆H/ /naɨH/
Li
Rong
/siɔH/ /niɔH/ /ȶʰiɔH/ /naH/
Wang
Li
/sĭoH/ /nĭoH/ /ȶʰĭoH/ /naH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯woH/ /ni̯woH/ /ȶʰi̯woH/ /naH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjoH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-na-s/
English raw silk, floss

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 9596 9619 9620 9621
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rnaːs/ /*nas/ /*snas/ /*nas/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 叨叨絮絮
  • 吐絮
  • 撏綿扯絮挦绵扯絮
  • 故絮
  • 敗絮败絮 (bàixù)
  • 春心飛絮春心飞絮
  • 柳絮 (liǔxù)
  • 棉絮
  • 漂絮
  • 煩絮烦絮
  • 粘花惹絮
  • 絮叨 (xùdāo)
  • 絮搭
  • 絮煩絮烦
  • 絮紙絮纸
  • 絮絮
  • 絮絮不休
  • 絮絮叨叨 (xùxudāodāo)
  • 絮絮聒聒
  • 絮聒 (xùguā)
  • 絮語絮语
  • 絮鍋兒絮锅儿
  • 綿絮绵絮
  • 聒絮
  • 花絮
  • 花絮新聞花絮新闻
  • 花花絮絮
  • 蘆絮芦絮
  • 蘭因絮果兰因絮果
  • 詠絮咏絮
  • 話休絮煩话休絮烦
  • 遊絲飛絮游丝飞絮
  • 隻雞絮酒只鸡絮酒
  • 霑泥絮
  • 頭絮兒头絮儿
  • 飛絮飞絮 (fēixù)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seo, yeo) (hangeul , , revised seo, yeo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, yŏ, Yale se, ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhứ, tự)

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