歇

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歇 U+6B47, 歇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B47
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 歈 →

Translingual

Han character

歇 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日女弓人 (AVNO), four-corner 67782, composition ⿰曷欠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16141
  • Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2145, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6B47

Chinese

trad. 歇
simp. # 歇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愒 *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤 *qaːds
靄 *qaːds, *qaːd
餲 *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝 *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭 *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈 *ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲 *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛 *kaːd
輵 *kaːd
獦 *klaːd, *rab
渴 *kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑 *kʰaːd
暍 *qʰaːd, *qad
曷 *ɡaːd
褐 *ɡaːd
鶡 *ɡaːd
毼 *ɡaːd
蝎 *ɡaːd
鞨 *ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏 *qaːd
齃 *qaːd
堨 *qaːd
擖 *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬 *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅 *kʰrad
藒 *kʰrad
竭 *ɡrad, *ɡad
碣 *ɡrad, *ɡad
羯 *kad
鍻 *kad
歇 *qʰad
蠍 *qʰad
謁 *qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰad) : phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd) + semantic 欠.

Etymology

Related to 愒 (OC *kʰrad) (Sagart, 2007) and 憩 (OC *kʰrads) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

Note: kit3 - nonstandard variant in certain compounds.
Note:
  • hiat - literary;
  • hioh/hehⁿ/heh - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 歇
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕie²¹/
Jinan /ɕiə²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕiə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /ɕi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕiɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /ɕie²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hiat̚¹/
Taoyuan /hiet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hit̚³/
Nanning /hit̚³³/
Hong Kong /hit̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hiat̚³²/
/hioʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hyɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xyɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hiaʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /he⁵⁵/
/hɛ³⁵/
/hɛ³³/
Rime
Character 歇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 元 (67)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許謁切
Baxter xjot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨat̚/
Li
Rong 		/xiɐt̚/
Wang
Li 		/xĭɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xɨ̯ɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hit3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiē
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xjot ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰat/
English cease, rest (v.)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 歇
Reading # 1/1
No. 5064
Phonetic
component 		曷
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰad/

Definitions

歇

  1. to rest; to relax
  2. to take a break; to stop; to cease
  3. to decline; to decay; to fade
  4. to dissipate; to diffuse
  5. a short moment
    坐脫歇／坐脱歇 [Shanghainese]  ―  6zu-theq-shiq [Wugniu]  ―  Come on in. (literally: "get seated for a moment")
  6. (Teochew) to stop
  7. (dialectal) to sleep
  8. (Northern Wu, dated in Shanghainese) Used to indicate that a verb has been experienced by the speaker.
    Synonym: 歇過／歇过
    勿曾聽見歇個。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    勿曾听见歇个。 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    From: 1923, 𨂝河唱歌 ("The River-Crossing Sing-Song") as released by the Shanghai Pathé Record Company, performed by 趙秀英
    7veq-zen 1thin-cie-shiq-gheq [Wugniu]
    I have not heard of it.
  9. (Ningbonese) to lack; to be absent
    要學外語，一隻錄音機歇勿來個 [Ningbonese, trad.]
    要学外语，一只录音机歇勿来个 [Ningbonese, simp.]
    From: 1996, Tang Zhenzhu, Wu Xinmin and Wu Xinxian, 寧波方言詞典, page 363
    To learn a foreign language, you cannot do it without a radio.

Synonyms

  • (to rest):
Dialectal synonyms of 休息 (“to rest; to take a break”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 休息, 歇息
Mandarin Beijing 歇, 休息
Taiwan 休息
Jinan 歇
Xi'an 歇
Wuhan 歇, 歇氣
Chengdu 歇氣, 歇
Yangzhou 歇, 休息
Hefei 歇
Singapore 休息
Cantonese Guangzhou 敨, 歇
Hong Kong 敨, 歇, 休息
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 敨
Hong Kong (Ting Kok) 敨
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 敨
Dongguan 敨
Yangjiang 敨, 歇
Gan Nanchang 歇
Hakka Meixian 歇, 敨
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 歇睏, 休息
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 歇睏, 休息
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 歇睏, 休息
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 歇睏, 休息
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 歇睏, 休息
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 歇睏
Hong Kong 敨
Jin Taiyuan 歇
Northern Min Jian'ou 歇
Eastern Min Fuzhou 歇
Southern Min Xiamen 歇, 歇睏
Quanzhou 歇睏
Zhangzhou 歇睏
Taipei 歇, 歇睏
New Taipei (Sanxia) 歇
Kaohsiung 歇, 歇睏
Yilan 歇, 歇睏
Changhua (Lukang) 歇, 歇睏
Taichung 歇睏
Tainan 歇, 歇睏
Hsinchu 歇睏
Kinmen 歇睏
Penghu (Magong) 歇睏
Singapore (Hokkien) 休息, 歇
Chaozhou 歇乏, 歇睏
Wu Shanghai 歇作, 休息
Suzhou 歇, 休息
Wenzhou 歇, 休息
Xiang Changsha 歇氣
Shuangfeng 歇氣
  • (to stop):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

歇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

歇 • (heol) (hangeul 헐, revised heol, McCune–Reischauer hŏl, Yale hel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歇: Hán Nôm readings: hết, hít, yết, hét, hiết, hớt

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