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U+9F55, 齕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F55

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 211, +3, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜山人弓 (YUON), four-corner 28717, composition )

  1. gnaw, bite, nibble

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1532, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2070, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4789, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9F55

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (54) (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter hot het
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦət̚/ /ɦet̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦət̚/ /ɦet̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣət̚/ /ɣɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦət̚/ /ɦɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/ɣət̚/ /ɣet̚/
Wang
Li
/ɣət̚/ /ɣiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣət̚/ /ɣiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xié
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hat6 jit6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hot ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-ˁət/
English bite (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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10075 10097
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡɯːd/ /*ɡuːd/

Definitions

  1. (literary) to bite; to gnaw

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. gnaw
  2. bite
  3. nibble

Readings

Korean

Hanja

(eum (heul))

  1. bite, gnaw
  2. chew