裂

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裂 U+88C2, 裂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88C2
← 裁
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 裃 →
裂 U+F9A0, 裂
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9A0
← 烈
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 說 →

Translingual

Han character

裂 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一弓卜竹女 (MNYHV), four-corner 12732, composition ⿱列衣)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1116, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34260
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1582, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3087, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+88C2

Chinese

trad. 裂
simp. # 裂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 裂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (列) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
例 *reds
鮤 *reds, *red
栵 *reds, *red
洌 *reds, *red
銐 *r'eds, *r̥ʰjeds
峛 *relʔ
列 *red
裂 *red
烈 *red
冽 *red
迾 *red
蛚 *red
茢 *red
颲 *red
鴷 *red
挒 *red
姴 *red

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *red) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : phonetic 列 (OC *red, “to tear”) + semantic 衣 (“clothes”) — to cut and tear clothes. The phonetic 列 depicts bones being cut up with a blade and arranged in a line.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • lia̍t - literary;
  • li̍h - vernacular.
Rime
Character 裂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 薛 (81)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良辥切
Baxter ljet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liat̚/
Li
Rong 		/liɛt̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭɛt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lit6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 裂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljet ›
Old
Chinese 		/*at/
English to cut, split

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 裂
Reading # 1/1
No. 8129
Phonetic
component 		列
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*red/

Definitions

裂

  1. to crack; to break open
  2. to split
  3. to rend
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

裂

  1. (Hokkien) to break open revealing a crack
  2. (Hokkien) crack; gap; split; opening
  3. (Hokkien) Classifier for cut left by a knife.
Synonyms
  • (crack):

References

Japanese

Kanji

裂

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to break
  2. to tear

Readings

  • Go-on: れち (rechi)
  • Kan-on: れつ (retsu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: さく (saku, 裂く, Jōyō)、さける (sakeru, 裂ける, Jōyō)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

裂 (eumhun 찢을 렬 (jjijeul ryeol), word-initial (South Korea) 찢을 열 (jjijeul yeol))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“split, crack, break open”)
  2. hanja form? of ] (“rend”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

裂: Hán Nôm readings: liệt

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