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麝
麝
Translingual
Han character
麝 (radical 198 鹿+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 戈心竹竹戈 (IPHHI), four-corner 00241)
- musk deer
 
References
- KangXi: page 1511, character 13
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47682
 - Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 20
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4735, character 4
 - Unihan data for U+9E9D
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
麝 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (射) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 謝 | *ljaːɡs | 
| 榭 | *ljaːɡs | 
| 射 | *ɢljaːɡs, *laːɡs, *ɢljaːɡ, *laːɡ | 
| 麝 | *ɢljaːɡs, *ɢljaːɡ | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˋ
 - Wade-Giles: shê4
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheh
 - IPA (key): /ʂɤ⁵¹/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: se6
 - Yale: seh
 - Cantonese Pinyin: se6
 - IPA (key): /sɛː²²/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siā
 - Tâi-lô: siā
 - Phofsit Daibuun: sia
 - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕia²²/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕia⁴¹/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕia²²/
 - IPA (Taipei): /ɕia³³/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕia³³/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 麝 | 麝 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) | 船 (27) | 
| Final (韻) | 麻 (100) | 昔 (123) | 
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Checked (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | III | 
| Fanqie | 神夜切 | 食亦切 | 
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/ʑiaH/ | /ʑiᴇk̚/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ʑiaH/ | /ʑiɛk̚/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/ʑiaH/ | /ʑiæk̚/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ʑiaH/ | /ʑiajk̚/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/d͡ʑiaH/ | /d͡ʑiɛk̚/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/d͡ʑĭaH/ | /d͡ʑĭɛk̚/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/d͡ʑʰi̯aH/ | /d͡ʑʰi̯ɛk̚/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
shè | shí | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 麝 | 麝 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| No. | 11224 | 11227 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
射 | 射 | 
| Rime group  | 
暮 | 鐸 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
0 | 0 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
射 | 麝 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*ɢljaːɡs/ | /*ɢljaːɡ/ | 
Definitions
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Kanji
麝
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Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
麝 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
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