碬

碬 U 78AC, 碬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78AC ← 碫 [U 78AB] CJK Unified Ideographs 碭 → [U 78AD]

Translingual

Han character

碬 (Kangxi radical 112, 石 9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口口尸水 (MRRSE), four-corner 1764₇, composition ⿰石叚)

1. whetstone

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 833, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24341
• Dae Jaweon: page 1250, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2445, character 14
• Unihan data for U 78AC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		碬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 碬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (叚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
葭	*kraː
麚	*kraː
瘕	*kraː, *kraːʔ
豭	*kraː
貑	*kraː
猳	*kraː
犌	*kraː
假	*kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏	*kraːʔ
婽	*kraːʔ
椵	*kraːʔ
叚	*kraːʔ
蝦	*qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆	*qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞	*ɡraː
遐	*ɡraː
瑕	*ɡraː
鰕	*ɡraː
碬	*ɡraː
蕸	*ɡraː
赮	*ɡraː
鍜	*ɡraː
騢	*ɡraː
暇	*ɡraːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haa⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siá
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²
    • Yale: syá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
    • Palladius: ся (sja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haa⁴
    • Yale: hàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ha⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hae

Rime
Character	碬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡加切
Baxter	hae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣa/
Wang Li	/ɣa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haa4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	碬
Reading #	1/1
No.	5970
Phonetic component	叚
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遐
Old Chinese	/*ɡraː/

Definitions

碬

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References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 165

Japanese

Kanji

碬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)、げ (ge)
• Kun: といし (toishi)