夨

夨 U 5928, 夨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5928 ← 大 [U 5927] CJK Unified Ideographs 天 → [U 5929]

Translingual

Han character

夨 (Kangxi radical 37, 大 0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女大 (VK), composition ⿻㇥⿱一㇏)

Derived characters

• 𣅔, 𡔢, 奊, 𡙀, 𨾎, 𩫀, 𠨮, 𫧌, 𫢥, 𩶭, 𫑞, 𬏰

See also

• 吳, 𡵗, 𣅳, 𥸸, 𧦂, 𪄾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 248, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5832
• Dae Jaweon: page 500, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 524, character 2
• Unihan data for U 5928

Chinese

simp. and trad.		夨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夨
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - a man tilting his head.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zè (ze⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zak¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zè
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zè
    • Wade–Giles: tsê⁴
    • Yale: dzè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeh
    • Palladius: цзэ (czɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zak¹
    • Yale: jāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrik, let

Rime
Character	夨	夨
Reading #	2/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	職 (134)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	阻力切	練結切
Baxter	tsrik	let
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɨk̚/	/let̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂɨk̚/	/let̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiek̚/	/lɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂik̚/	/lɛt̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiək̚/	/let̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭək̚/	/liet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯ək̚/	/liet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhe	liè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zik1	lit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]rək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrik ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]rək/
English	incline the head
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	夨
Reading #	1/1
No.	16609
Phonetic component	夨
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	稄
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯɡ/

Definitions

夨

1. ^† to tilt the head

Compounds

• 宜侯夨簋

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01927

Japanese

Kanji

夨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)、しき (shiki)、れつ (retsu)、れち (rechi)
• Kun: かたむける (katamukeru, 夨ける)