絜

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絜 U+7D5C, 絜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D5C
← 絛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 絝 →

Translingual

Han character

絜 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手竹女戈火 (QHVIF), four-corner 57903, composition ⿱㓞糸)

  1. a marking line
  2. ascertain, assess
  3. measure

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 922, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27419
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3389, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7D5C

Chinese

trad. 絜
simp. # 絜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯 *kreːds
瘛 *kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢 *ɡjeds
契 *kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔 *kʰeːds
禊 *ɡeːds
稧 *ɡeːds
楔 *kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜 *kʰreːd
猰 *qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫 *qreːd
揳 *sqʰeːd
偰 *sqʰeːd
潔 *keːd
絜 *keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥 *keːd, *kʰeːd
挈 *kʰeːd
蛪 *kʰeːd
齧 *ŋeːd
褉 *qʰeːd
喫 *ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *keːd, *ɡeːd) : phonetic 㓞 () + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 絜 絜
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 屑 (87) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 古屑切 胡結切
Baxter ket het
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ket̚/ /ɦet̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ket̚/ /ɦet̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɛt̚/ /ɣɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɛt̚/ /ɦɛt̚/
Li
Rong 		/ket̚/ /ɣet̚/
Wang
Li 		/kiet̚/ /ɣiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kiet̚/ /ɣiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jie xié
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		git3 jit6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 絜 絜
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6508 6518
Phonetic
component 		丯 丯
Rime
group 		月 月
Rime
subdivision 		2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		結 纈
Old
Chinese 		/*keːd/ /*ɡeːd/

Definitions

絜

  1. † to be clean; to be pure
  2. † to wash
  3. † to regulate
  4. † marking line

References

Japanese

Kanji

絜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu)、けち (kechi)、けい (kei)、かつ (katsu)
  • Kun: あさ (asa)、たば (taba)、きよい (kiyoi)

Korean

Hanja

絜 • (hyeol) (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune–Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

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