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See also: 濑 and 瀬

Translingual

Traditional	瀨
Shinjitai	瀬
Simplified	濑

Han character

瀨 (radical 85 水+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水木中金 (EDLC), four-corner 3118₆, composition ⿰氵賴)

References

KangXi: page 660, character 20

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18672

Dae Jaweon: page 1070, character 13

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1782, character 5

Unihan data for U+7028

Chinese

trad.		瀨
simp.		濑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賴) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
賴	*raːds
籟	*raːds
癩	raːds, raːd
瀨	*raːds
藾	*raːds
攋	raːds, reːdʔ, *raːd
懶	*raːnʔ
嬾	*raːnʔ
獺	r̥ʰaːd, hr'aːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːds) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 賴 ‎(OC *raːds).

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): lài (lai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): laai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: lài
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄞˋ
  - Wade-Giles: lai⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lay
  - IPA ^(key): /laɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: laai⁶
  - Yale: laaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: laai⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /lɑːi̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /lɑi^H/▼

Rime
Character	瀨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落蓋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/laj^H/
Li Rong	/lɑi^H/
Wang Li	/lɑi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lài

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*C.rˤa[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*raːds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瀨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lài
Middle Chinese	‹ laj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*C.rˤa[t]-s/
English	rapids
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	瀨
Reading #	1/1
No.	7634
Phonetic component	賴
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	賴
Old Chinese	/*raːds/

Definitions

瀨

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Japanese

Kanji

瀨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

swift current
rapids

Readings

On: らい (rai)

Kun: せ (se)

Korean

Hanja

瀨 • ‎(roe>noe) (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune-Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)

rapids
swift current
submit to
dependence, trust, reliance

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