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缺

缺

See also: 欠

Translingual

Han character

缺 (radical 121 缶+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人山木大 (OUDK), four-corner 85730, composition ⿰缶夬)

  1. be short of, lack
  2. gap, deficit

References

  • KangXi: page 945, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28122
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1385, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2936, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7F3A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 缺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
袂 *mɡʷeds
夬 *kʷraːds
快 *kʰʷraːds
駃 *kʰʷraːds, *kʷeːd
筷 *kʰʷraːds
炔 *kʷeːds
觖 *kʰʷeds, *kʷeːd
缺 *kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd
蒛 *kʰʷed
吷 *qʰʷed
妜 *qʷed, *qʷeːd
決 *kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
訣 *kʷeːd
抉 *kʷeːd, *qʷeːd
玦 *kʷeːd
芵 *kʷeːd
赽 *kʷeːd
鴂 *kʷeːd
鈌 *kʷeːd
决 *kʷeːd
疦 *kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
蚗 *kʷeːd
趹 *kʷeːd

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 缺
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰye²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕʰyə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰyɛ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕʰyu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰyə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰyɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰye²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰye³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰyeʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰyəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰyɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰye²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰyæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰyɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kʰiat̚¹/
Taoyuan /kʰiet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰyt̚³/
Nanning /kʰyt̚³³/
Hong Kong /kʰyt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰuat̚³²/
/kʰeʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰiɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰyɛ²⁴/
/kʰiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰueʔ²/
/kʰiʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xi⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 缺 缺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 屑 (88) 薛 (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) IV III
Fanqie 苦穴切 傾雪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰwet̚/ /kʰiuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷet̚/ /kʰʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɛt̚/ /kʰjuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwɛt̚/ /kʰwiat̚/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuet̚/ /kʰiuɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kʰiwet̚/ /kʰĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰiwet̚/ /kʰi̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 que que
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 缺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 quē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-[k]ʷʰˤet/
English break; defective

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 缺 缺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4412 4430
Phonetic
component		 夬 夬
Rime
group		 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 缺 闋
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷed/ /*kʰʷeːd/

Definitions

缺

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Japanese

Kanji

缺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 欠)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

缺 • ‎(gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune-Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

缺 (khuyết)

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