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賽
賽
See also: 赛
Translingual
Han character
賽 (radical 154 貝+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金金 (JTCC), four-corner 30806, composition ⿱𡨄貝)
References
- KangXi: page 1211, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36886
- Dae Jaweon: page 1677, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3655, character 10
- Unihan data for U+8CFD
Chinese
| trad. | 賽 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 赛 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 賽
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|---|---|---|
| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (塞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 賽 | *slɯːɡs |
| 塞 | *slɯːɡs, *slɯːɡ |
| 簺 | *slɯːɡs |
| 僿 | *hljɯɡs |
| 寨 | *zraːds, *slɯːɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): coi3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhoi / soi
- Min Dong (BUC): suói
- Min Nan (POJ): sài / sè
- Wu (Wiktionary): se (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄞˋ
- Wade-Giles: sai4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: say
- IPA (key): /saɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: coi3
- Yale: choi
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi3
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhoi / soi
- Hakka Romanization System: coi / soi
- Hagfa Pinyim: coi4 / soi4
- IPA: /t͡sʰo̯i⁵⁵/, /so̯i⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: suói
- IPA (key): /suɔi²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: se (T2)
- IPA (key): /sᴇ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 賽 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /sai⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /sai⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /sai⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /sɛ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /sɛ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /sai³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /sai⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /sɛ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /sɛ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /sɛ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /sai²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /sai³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /sai¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /sai²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /sæ²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /sae⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /se̞⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /sai⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /sæ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /sɛ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /se³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /se̞⁵¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /se̞⁴⁴⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /se⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /sɛ³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /sə⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /sai⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /sai⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sai⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /soi⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /soi⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sʰɔi³³/ |
| Nanning | /sɔi³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sʰɔi³³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /sai²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /suɔi²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /so³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /sai²¹³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /sai³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 咍 (41) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 先代切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/sʌiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/səiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sɒiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/səjH/ |
| Li Rong |
/sᴀiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/sɒiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/sɑ̆iH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
sài |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10957 |
| Phonetic component |
塞 |
| Rime group |
代 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賽 |
| Old Chinese |
/*slɯːɡs/ |
Definitions
賽
Compounds
Derived terms from 賽
Japanese
Kanji
賽
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
賽 • (sae) (hangeul 새, revised sae, McCune-Reischauer sae, Yale say)
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