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Translingual
Han character
歃 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹難弓人 (HXNO) or 一難弓 (MXN), four-corner 27782, composition ⿰臿欠)
- smear one's mouth with blood of a victim when taking an oath
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16131
- Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2146, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6B43
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 偛
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*ʔsreːb
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| 插
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*sʰreːb
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| 鍤
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*sʰreːb, *r̥ʰeb
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| 臿
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*sʰreːb
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| 喢
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*sʰreːb, *sreːb, *sreb, *l̥ʰjeb
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| 牐
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*zreːb
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| 歃
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*sreːb, *sreb
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| 敮
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*hreːb
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sreːb, *sreb) : phonetic 臿 (OC *sʰreːb) + semantic 欠 (“to yawn”).
Etymology
Compare Khmer ស្រោប (sraop, “to plate; to cover”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *sapᴴ (“to rub; to stroke”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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歃
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歃
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shà
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shà
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ srɛp ›
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‹ srjep ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*(ˁ)rp/
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/*rp/
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| English
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smear mouth with victim"s blood
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smear mouth with blood
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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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歃
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歃
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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1196
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1200
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Phonetic
component
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臿
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臿
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Rime
group
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盍
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盍
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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霎
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萐
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Old
Chinese
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/*sreːb/
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/*sreb/
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Definitions
歃
- (literary) to drink (blood); to suck (blood); to smear (blood) on the mouth
- 歃血 ― shàxuè ― to smear the mouth with the blood of a sacrifice
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to eat (snacks, etc. in an undignified manner)
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, of animals) to eat; to feed
Synonyms
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
歃
(Hyōgai kanji)
- to sip, slurp, suck
Readings
Korean
Hanja
歃 • (sap) (hangeul 삽, revised sap, McCune–Reischauer sap, Yale sap)
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Vietnamese
Han character
歃: Hán Nôm readings: sáp, khảm
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