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U+5393, 厓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5393

[U+5392]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5394]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 27 +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一土土 (MGG), composition)

  1. cliff, precipice
  2. waterside, foreshore
  3. corner of the eye

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 161, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2930
  • Dae Jaweon: page 367, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 70, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5393

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kreː, *kreː
*ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
*ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
*kreː
*ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
*ŋreː, *ŋre
*ŋreː, *ŋre
*ŋreː
*ŋreː
*ŋreː
*ŋreːs
*qreː
*qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
*qreː, *qʷraː
*ɡeː, *kʷeː
*qeːns
*ɡʷraːʔ
*ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
*ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
*qʷraː, *qʷreː
*qʷraː
*kʷreːs
*kʷreːs
*kʷreːs
詿 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
*kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
*kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
*ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
*kʷeː
*kʷeː
*kʷeː
*kʷeː
*kʷeː
*kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
*kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
*kʷeːs
*kʷeːs
*kʰʷeː
*kʰʷeː
*kʰʷeː
*kʰʷeː
*qʰʷeː
*ɡʷeː
*ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
*qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
*kʰʷeʔ
*qʷes
*qʰʷreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋreː) : semantic  (cliff) + phonetic  (OC *kʷeː) – a cliff 厂 of dirt (圭 = + ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (31)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋˠɛ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋᵚæ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋæi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋaɨj/
Li
Rong
/ŋɛ/
Wang
Li
/ŋai/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋai/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngɛ ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋˤrar/
English river bank; limit

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. 4538
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋreː/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. precipice
  2. shore
  3. bank
  4. cliff

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ae) (hangeul , revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae)

  1. hill, cliff
  2. the edge
  3. boundary

Vietnamese

Han character

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