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Translingual
Han character
犧 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹手廿土尸 (HQTGS), four-corner 28553, composition ⿰牜羲)
- sacrifice, give up
- sacrificial
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 705, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20209
- Dae Jaweon: page 1117, character 35
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1822, character 4
- Unihan data for U+72A7
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 莪
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*ŋaːl
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| 哦
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*ŋaːl
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| 娥
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*ŋaːl
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| 峨
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*ŋaːl
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| 峩
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*ŋaːl
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| 鵝
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*ŋaːl
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| 俄
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*ŋaːl
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| 蛾
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*ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
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| 睋
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*ŋaːl
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| 涐
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*ŋaːl
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| 誐
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*ŋaːl
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| 硪
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*ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
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| 我
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*ŋaːlʔ
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| 騀
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*ŋaːlʔ
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| 餓
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*ŋaːls
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| 義
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*ŋrals
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| 儀
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*ŋral
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| 轙
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*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
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| 檥
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*ŋral, *ŋralʔ
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| 蟻
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*ŋralʔ
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| 艤
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*ŋralʔ
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| 礒
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*ŋralʔ
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| 羛
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*ŋralʔ, *hŋral
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| 議
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*ŋrals
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| 犧
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*hŋral
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| 曦
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*hŋral
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| 羲
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*hŋral
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋral) : semantic 牛 (“ox”) + phonetic 羲 (OC *hŋral).
Etymology
Cognate with 儀 (OC *ŋral, “ceremony; appearance”). See there for more.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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犧
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xī
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xje ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ŋ̊(r)a/
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| English
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sacrificial animal
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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犧
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13057
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Phonetic
component
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我
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Rime
group
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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犧
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Old
Chinese
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/*hŋral/
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Definitions
犧
- (historical) pure-colored sacrificial animal
- sacrifice
Compounds
References
- “犧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “牺”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 251.
Japanese
Kanji
犧
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 犠)
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Readings
See also
Korean
Hanja
犧 • (hui, sa) (hangeul 희, 사, revised hui, sa, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, sa, Yale huy, sa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
犧: Hán Việt readings: hy[1][2][3], hi[4]
犧: Nôm readings: hi[4]
- chữ Hán form of hi (“certain types of sacrifice”).
Compounds
References