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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 64 +18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 手尸十十 (QSJJ), four-corner 51041, composition)

  1. take in, absorb
  2. act as deputy
  3. administer, assist

References

  • KangXi: page 463, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13010
  • Dae Jaweon: page 812, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1986, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+651D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*neːb, *ʔnjeb
*neb
*neb
*neb
*nteb, *ʔnjeb
*ʔnjeb
*ʔnjeb, *njeb
*ʔnjeb, *n̥ʰjeb, *ɦnjeb, *hnjeb
*hnjeb
*njeb
*njeb

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (26) (8)
Final () (155) (158)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiᴇp̚/ /nep̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɛp̚/ /nep̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjæp̚/ /nɛp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕiap̚/ /nɛp̚/
Li
Rong
/ɕiɛp̚/ /nep̚/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭɛp̚/ /niep̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯ɛp̚/ /niep̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
she niè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shè
Middle
Chinese
‹ syep ›
Old
Chinese
/*kə.n̥ep/
English catch, gather up

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 9528 9539
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*neːb/ /*ʔnjeb/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 攝氏摄氏 (Shèshì)
  • 攝氏溫度計摄氏温度计
  • 攝生摄生
  • 攝行摄行

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seop, yeop) (hangeul , 엽, revised seop, yeop, McCune-Reischauer sŏp, yŏp, Yale sep, yep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nhép, nếp, nhiếp, xếp, nhẹp, nhíp, triếp)

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