埡

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See also: 垭
埡 U+57E1, 埡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57E1
← 埠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 埢 →

Translingual

Han character

埡 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土一中一 (GMLM), four-corner 41112, composition ⿰土亞)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5216
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 449, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+57E1

Chinese

trad. 埡
simp. 垭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 啞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (亞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
椏 *qaːʔ, *qraː
錏 *qraː
鵶 *qraː
啞 *qraːʔ, *qraːɡs, *qraːɡ, *qraːɡ
瘂 *qraːʔ
亞 *qraːɡs
婭 *qraːɡs
俹 *qraːɡs
稏 *qraːɡs
惡 *qaː, *qaːɡs, *qaːɡ
噁 *qaːɡs
堊 *qaːɡ
蝁 *qaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 亞 (OC *qraːɡs).

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

埡

  1. (dialectal) strip of land between hills; narrow mountain pass; character used in place names

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

埡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: う (u)
  • Kan-on: お (o)
  • Kun: さと (sato, 埡)

Vietnamese

Han character

埡: Hán Nôm readings: ái

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References

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