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Translingual
Han character
嗟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口廿手一 (RTQM), four-corner 68011, composition ⿰口差)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4102
- Dae Jaweon: page 426, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 661, character 1
- Unihan data for U+55DF
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 左
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*ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls
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| 佐
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*ʔsaːls
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| 袏
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*ʔslaːls
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| 蹉
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*sʰlaːl
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| 瑳
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*sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ
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| 搓
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*sʰlaːl
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| 磋
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*sʰlaːl
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| 溠
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*sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls
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| 傞
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*sʰlaːl, *slaːl
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| 醝
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*zlaːl
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| 瘥
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*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls
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| 鹺
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*zlaːl
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| 嵯
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*zlaːl, *sʰral
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| 嵳
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*zlaːl
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| 蒫
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*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl
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| 艖
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*zlaːl, *sʰraːl
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| 齹
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*zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral
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| 縒
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*slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ
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| 褨
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*slaːlʔ
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| 嗟
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*ʔsljal
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| 差
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*sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral
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| 鎈
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*sʰraːl
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| 槎
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*zraːl, *zraːlʔ
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| 髊
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*zlals
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In Small Seal Script, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsljal) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 差 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral) (𧪘). In Regular Script, 言 (yán) became 口 (kǒu).
Pronunciation 1
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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嗟
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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jiē
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsjæ ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*tsAj/
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| English
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sigh; alas!
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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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嗟
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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18026
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Phonetic
component
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左
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Rime
group
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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嗟
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʔsljal/
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Definitions
嗟
- (literary) sigh; alas
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
嗟
- Only used in 咄嗟 (duōjiē, “in a short time”).
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
嗟
(Hyōgai kanji)
Readings
Etymology
The kanji is ateji (当て字).
Interjection
嗟 or 嗟 • (ā)
- Alternative form of アー
Korean
Hanja
嗟 • (cha) (hangeul 차, revised cha, McCune–Reischauer ch'a)
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Vietnamese
Han character
嗟: Hán Nôm readings: ta, xơi
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References