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Translingual
Han character
卸 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+6 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 卩+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 人一尸中 (OMSL), four-corner 87120, composition ⿰𦈢卩)
- to lay down
- to retire from office
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2861
- Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 314, character 3
- Unihan data for U+5378
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 卸
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*sŋjaːs
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| 汻
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*hŋaːŋʔ
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| 滸
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*hŋaːʔ
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| 午
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*ŋaːʔ
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| 仵
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*ŋaːʔ
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| 旿
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*ŋaːʔ
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| 忤
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*ŋaːs
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| 迕
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*ŋaːs
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| 杵
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*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
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| 籞
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*ŋaʔ
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| 蘌
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*ŋaʔ
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| 篽
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*ŋaʔ
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| 禦
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*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
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| 許
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*hŋaʔ
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| 御
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*ŋas
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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 午 (“pestle”) + 止 (“foot; walk”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”).
Also phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sŋjaːs) : phonetic 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ) + semantic 止 (“foot; walk”) + semantic 卩 (“kneeling person”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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卸
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xiè
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ sjæH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
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| English
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to unload
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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卸
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13166
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Phonetic
component
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午
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Rime
group
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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蝑
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Old
Chinese
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/*sŋjaːs/
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Definitions
卸
- to unload
- to take; to remove
- to release; to shirk; to resign; to retire (from office)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
卸
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- wholesale
- to grate, grated
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
卸 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
卸: Hán Việt readings: tá
卸: Nôm readings: tá, xả
- Nôm form of xả (“discharge, remove”).
References