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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人戈尸一口 (OISMR), four-corner 87720)

  1. raise animals
  2. feed
  3. nourish

References

  • KangXi: page 1418, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1942, character 39
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4449, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+98FC

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*slɯ
*slɯ, *slɯs
*slɯ, *slɯs
*slɯ, *slɯs
*ljɯ
*ljɯ
*ljɯ
*ljɯs
*ljɯs
*ljɯs
*hljɯ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (17)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/zɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/zɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/zieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zɨH/
Li
Rong
/ziəH/
Wang
Li
/zĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ziH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ziH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-m-lək-s/
English feed (v.)

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 # 1/1
No. 11963
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ljɯs/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sa) (hangeul , revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tự)

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