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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿大口 (HTKR), four-corner 88604, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 889, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26192
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1317, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2980, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7BAC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ
*nja, *nje, *n̥ʰaɡ
*njaʔ, *njaɡ
*naːɡ
*hnaːɡ, *n̥ʰaɡ
*naɡ
*naɡ, *rnaːɡ
*njaɡ
*njaɡ
*njaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njaɡ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ).

Pronunciation 1

simp. and trad.
alt. forms (ha̍h) Min Nan
(ha̍h) Min Nan


Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/ȵiak̚/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ruò
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10941
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njaɡ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (“cuticle of bamboo plant; bamboo sheath; leaf of a type of bamboo”).

Pronunciation 2

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Definitions

  1. (Min) leaf
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

simp. and trad.

Definitions

  1. a type of disease in bamboo

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings