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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金金 (JTCC), four-corner 30806, composition𡨄)

References

  • KangXi: page 1211, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1677, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3655, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8CFD

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*slɯːɡs
*slɯːɡs, *slɯːɡ
*slɯːɡs
*hljɯɡs
*zraːds, *slɯːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /sai⁵¹/
Harbin /sai⁵³/
Tianjin /sai⁵³/
Jinan /sɛ²¹/
Qingdao /sɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sai³¹²/
Xi'an /sai⁴⁴/
Xining /sɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /sɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /sɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /sai²¹³/
Wuhan /sai³⁵/
Chengdu /sai¹³/
Guiyang /sai²¹³/
Kunming /sæ²¹²/
Nanjing /sae⁴⁴/
Hefei /se̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /sai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /sæ³⁵/
Hohhot /sɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /se³⁵/
Suzhou /se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /se̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /se⁴²/
Hui Shexian /sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /sə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /sai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /sai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /soi⁵³/
Taoyuan /soi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɔi³³/
Nanning /sɔi³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɔi³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sai²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /so³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sai³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/səiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/səjH/
Li
Rong
/sᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/sɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sài
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10957
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*slɯːɡs/

Definitions

  1. to compete; to contend
  2. competition; contest; race
    /    juésài   final

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sae) (hangeul , revised sae, McCune-Reischauer sae, Yale say)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tái, trại)

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