瑕

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瑕 U+7455, 瑕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7455
← 瑔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 瑖 →

Translingual

Han character

瑕 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土口尸水 (MGRSE), four-corner 17147, composition ⿰𤣩叚)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 737, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1128, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7455

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瑕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瑕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (叚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
葭 *kraː
麚 *kraː
瘕 *kraː, *kraːʔ
豭 *kraː
貑 *kraː
猳 *kraː
犌 *kraː
假 *kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏 *kraːʔ
婽 *kraːʔ
椵 *kraːʔ
叚 *kraːʔ
蝦 *qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆 *qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞 *ɡraː
遐 *ɡraː
瑕 *ɡraː
鰕 *ɡraː
碬 *ɡraː
蕸 *ɡraː
赮 *ɡraː
鍜 *ɡraː
騢 *ɡraː
暇 *ɡraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡraː) : semantic 𤣩 + phonetic 叚 (OC *kraːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 瑕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡加切
Baxter hae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠa/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦaɨ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣa/
Wang
Li 		/ɣa/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiá
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		haa4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瑕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiá
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁra/
English flaw, blemish

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 瑕
Reading # 1/1
No. 5967
Phonetic
component 		叚
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		遐
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡraː/
Notes 叚轉註字

Definitions

瑕

  1. flaw; blemish

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

瑕

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: げ (ge)
  • Kan-on: か (ka)
  • Kun: きず (kizu, 瑕)、なんぞ (nanzo, 瑕ぞ)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
瑕
か
Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 瑕 (MC hae).

Affix

瑕(か) • (ka) 

  1. blemish, flaw
Derived terms

Noun

瑕(か) • (ka) 

  1. a flaw

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
瑕
きず
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 瑕 – see the following entry.
【傷きず】6
any form of shallow wound: an injury, cut, scar
any kind of light damage: a chip, scratch, blemish, stain
Alternative spellings
疵, 創, キズ
(This term, 瑕, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

瑕 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Old Japanese

Etymology

Attested phonetically as 岐受 in the Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki of 794.[1][2]

From Proto-Japonic *kensu; the mid-vowel is reconstructed on the basis of the Southern Ryukyuan cognates.

Noun

瑕 (ki₁zu)

  1. any form of shallow wound: a blemish, injury, scar
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 5, poem 897:
      ...世間能宇計久都良計久伊等能伎提痛伎瘡爾波鹹塩遠灌知布何其等久...
      yo₂no₂naka no₂ uke₁ku turake₁ku ito₂ no₂ ki₁te itaki₁ ki₁zu ni pa karasipo wo so₂so₂ku tipu ga go₂to₂ku...
      In this world of gloom and hardship like a painful wound being poured with salt...
  2. any kind of light damage: a crack, flaw, scratch
    • 720, Nihon Shoki, Age of the gods, part 1:
      , Kitano-bon glosses:[2]
      是時、以レ鏡入二其石窟一者、觸レ戸小瑕。其瑕於レ秡今猶存。
      At this time, when the mirror was set in the rock-cave, it makes contact with the door with a slight crack. This damage remains to this day.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: 傷 (kizu)

References

  1. ^ Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 241
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “きず 【傷・疵・瑕・創】Paid subscription required”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here

Vietnamese

Han character

瑕: Hán Nôm readings: hà

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