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座

座

See also: 坐

Translingual

Han character

座 (radical 53 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈人人土 (IOOG), four-corner 00214, composition ⿸广坐)

References

  • KangXi: page 346, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9319
  • Dae Jaweon: page 655, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 886, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5EA7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 座

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (坐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脞 *sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳 *ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫 *ʔsoːls
夎 *ʔsoːls
遳 *sʰloːl
銼 *sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉 *sʰoːls
莝 *sʰoːls
趖 *soːl
矬 *zoːl
痤 *zoːl
睉 *zoːl
坐 *zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座 *zoːls
髽 *ʔsroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zoːls) : semantic 广 ‎(“house on cliff”) + phonetic 坐 ‎(OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls).

Etymology

From 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls, “to sit; to be situated”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 座
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徂卧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zuɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zuɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zuɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zwaH/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zuɑH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zuɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱuɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 座
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzwaH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤo[j]ʔ-s/
English seat n.

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 座
Reading # 1/1
No. 18066
Phonetic
component		 坐
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*zoːls/

Definitions

座

  1. seat   (Classifier: 個／个)
  2. stand; base   (Classifier: 個／个)
  3. Classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

座

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

座 ‎(hiragana ざ, romaji -za)

  1. names of constellations
  2. names of theaters

Korean

Hanja

座 • ‎(jwa) (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune-Reischauer chwa, Yale cwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

座 (toạ, toà, phụng)

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