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Translingual
Han character
懾 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 心尸十十 (PSJJ), four-corner 91041, composition ⿰忄聶)
- afraid, scared, fearful
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 409, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11498
- Dae Jaweon: page 751, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2371, character 6
- Unihan data for U+61FE
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 攝
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*neːb, *ʔnjeb
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| 聶
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*neb
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| 鑷
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*neb
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| 躡
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*neb
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| 襵
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*nteb, *ʔnjeb
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| 懾
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*ʔnjeb
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| 囁
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*ʔnjeb, *njeb
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| 欇
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*ʔnjeb, *n̥ʰjeb, *ɦnjeb, *hnjeb
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| 灄
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*hnjeb
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| 顳
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*njeb
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| 讘
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*njeb
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔnjeb): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 聶 (OC *neb).
Pronunciation
Note:
- liap - “to fear; to frighten”;
- niah - “to fear”.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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懾
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhé
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyep ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*p/
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| English
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to fear
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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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懾
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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9533
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Phonetic
component
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聶
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Rime
group
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盍
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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讋
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʔnjeb/
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Definitions
懾
- (literary or Hokkien) to fear; to be afraid; to be frightened; to be in awe
- (literary or Cantonese, Hokkien) to frighten; to scare
- (literary) to submit out of fear
Compounds
References
- “懾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “慑”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 208.
Japanese
Kanji
懾
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
懾 • (seop) (hangeul 섭, revised seop, McCune–Reischauer sŏp, Yale sep)
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Vietnamese
Han character
懾: Hán Nôm readings: nhiếp, phập
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References