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Translingual

Alternative forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*reːbs
*reːbs, *rebs
*reːbs, *rebs
*hlams, *hlab
*hlams
*raːb, *raːb
*hlab
*hlab
*hlab
*hlab
*ɦleːb
*ɦleːb
*ɦleːb
*ɦleːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hlams, *hlab) : phonetic  (OC *ɦleːb) + semantic .

Han character

(radical 130 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大尸大尸月 (KSKSB), four-corner 40227, composition)

  1. ribs
  2. armpits
  3. flank
  4. threaten

References

  • KangXi: page 982, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29466
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2073, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8105

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕiə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xining /ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiə⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /ɕie²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hiap̚¹/
Taoyuan /hiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hip̚³/
Nanning /hip̚³³/
Hong Kong /hip̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiap̚³²/
/hiap̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hieʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xiɛ⁴⁴/
/xiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiap̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiap̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (32) (32)
Final () (145) (147)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɨɐmH/ /hɨɐp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/hiɐmH/ /hiɐp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiɐmH/ /xiɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hɨamH/ /hɨap̚/
Li
Rong
/xiɐmH/ /xiap̚/
Wang
Li
/xĭɐmH/ /xĭɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯ɐmH/ /xi̯ɐp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiàn xie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xié
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjæp ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰ<r>ep/
English flank, side of the body

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. 13779 13783
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hlams/ /*hlab/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hyeop) (hangeul , revised hyeop, McCune-Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hiếp)

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