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Translingual

Han character

(radical 187 +5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 大口尸手火 (KRSQF), four-corner 46327)

References

  • KangXi: page 1436, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44667
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4550, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+99D5

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妿 *kaːl, *qaːl
*ɡaːls
*ka, *kal, *kraːl
*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
*ɡa, *ɡal
*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːls
*kraːls
*ɡʷal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraːls) : phonetic  (OC *kraːl) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨH/
Li
Rong
/kaH/
Wang
Li
/kaH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jià
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jià
Middle
Chinese
‹ H ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤraj-s/
English hitch horses to a chariot

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. 5884
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kraːls/

Definitions

  1. to drive; to sail; to fly
  2. (historical) cart; carriage
  3. (historical) emperor's carriage
  4. (figuratively) emperor

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ga)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: ga, McCune-Reischauer: ka, Yale: ka)
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Vietnamese

Han character

(giá)

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