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賀
賀
See also: 贺
Translingual
賀 in several fonts
Han character
賀 (radical 154 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大口月山金 (KRBUC), four-corner 46806, composition ⿱加貝)
References
- KangXi: page 1207, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36725
- Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3636, character 4
- Unihan data for U+8CC0
Chinese
| trad. | 賀 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 贺 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 賀
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|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (加) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 妿 | *kaːl, *qaːl |
| 賀 | *ɡaːls |
| 迦 | *ka, *kal, *kraːl |
| 茄 | *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl |
| 伽 | *ɡa, *ɡal |
| 枷 | *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl |
| 嘉 | *kraːl |
| 加 | *kraːl |
| 笳 | *kraːl |
| 痂 | *kraːl |
| 袈 | *kraːl |
| 跏 | *kraːl |
| 珈 | *kraːl |
| 鴐 | *kraːl |
| 架 | *kraːls |
| 駕 | *kraːls |
| 瘸 | *ɡʷal |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːls) : phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl) + semantic 貝 (“shellfish money”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˋ
- Wade-Giles: ho4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heh
- IPA (key): /xɤ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ho6, ho3
- Yale: hoh, ho
- Cantonese Pinyin: ho6, ho3
- IPA (key): /hɔː²²/, /hɔː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
- Tâi-lô: hō
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
- IPA (Xiamen): /hɤ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hɤ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɤ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ho³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: hhu (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦv̩ʷ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 胡箇切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦɑH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦɑH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣɑH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦaH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣɑH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣɑH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣɑH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
hè |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5862 |
| Phonetic component |
加 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賀 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡaːls/ |
Definitions
賀
- to congratulate
- to send present
- A surname.
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
賀
- congratulate, greet, celebrate
Readings
Korean
Hanja
賀 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
賀 (hạ, dặng)
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