粒

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粒 U+7C92, 粒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C92
← 粑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 粓 →
粒 U+F9F9, 粒
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9F9
← 笠
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 狀 →

Translingual

Han character

粒 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜廿 (FDYT), four-corner 90918, composition ⿰米立)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 907, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26884
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1333, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3145, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7C92

Chinese

trad. 粒
simp. # 粒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 粒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (立) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涖 *rɯːbs, *rɯbs
莅 *rɯbs, *rɯbs
蒞 *rɯbs
位 *ɢʷrɯbs
拉 *ruːb
菈 *ruːb
颯 *sluːb
立 *rɯb
粒 *rɯb
笠 *ɡ·rɯb
砬 *rɯb
岦 *rɯb
苙 *ɡ·rɯb, *ɡrɯb
鴗 *rɯb
雴 *r̥ʰɯb
泣 *kʰrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯb) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lia̍p - vernacular;
  • li̍p - literary.
Rime
Character 粒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 侵 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力入切
Baxter lip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lip̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lip̚/
Li
Rong 		/liəp̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lap6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 粒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lip ›
Old
Chinese 		/*p.rəp/
English grains of rice

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 粒
Reading # 1/1
No. 7870
Phonetic
component 		立
Rime
group 		緝
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		立
Old
Chinese 		/*rɯb/

Definitions

粒

  1. grain
  2. small particle
  3. Classifier for small, round objects: granule, grain, particle, piece ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    一粒米  ―  yī lì mǐ  ―  a grain of rice
    一粒糖 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 lap1 tong4-2   ―  a piece of candy
  4. (Hokkien, Eastern Min, Singapore and Malaysian Mandarin) Classifier for round, solid objects.
    一粒西瓜  ―  yī lì xīguā  ―  a watermelon
  5. (Cantonese) Classifier for hours.
  6. (Cantonese) Classifier for offspring.
  7. (Cantonese) Classifier for pips (insignia).
  8. (Cantonese, by extension) high-ranking police officer; police officer with pips
  9. (Cantonese, slang) Classifier for money: ten thousand yuan, dollars, etc.
    Synonym: 個／个

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

粒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. grains
  2. drop
  3. counter for tiny particles

Readings

Compounds

Noun

粒(つぶ) • (tsubu) 

  1. grain, bead, drop

Counter

粒(つぶ) • (-tsubu) 

  1. counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 粒 (MC lip). Recorded as Middle Korean 립〮 (líp) (Yale: lip) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

粒 (eumhun 알 립 (al rip), South Korea 알 입 (al ip))

  1. Hanja form? of 립/입 (“grain”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

粒: Hán Nôm readings: lạp, lép

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References

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