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See also: 西

Translingual

Han character

(radical 146 西+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一山月 (MUB) or X一山月 (XMUB), four-corner 10227)

  1. Kangxi radical #146, (west).

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 1128, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34762
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1595, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2805, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+897E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kraːʔ, *kraːs, *klaːʔ
*kraːʔ
*kraːs
*qʰraːʔ
*qraːs

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun
/hᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen
/xaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/haɨX/
Li
Rong
/xaX/
Wang
Li
/xaX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiǎ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ X ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰˤraʔ/
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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. 14204
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qraːs/

Definitions

  1. cover

References

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 西.
(This character, , is a variant form of 西.)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings