剉

剉 U+5249, 剉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5249 ← 剈 [U+5248] CJK Unified Ideographs 削 → [U+524A]

Translingual

Han character

剉 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人土中弓 (OGLN), four-corner 8210₀, composition ⿰坐刂)

1. to break, to deaden
2. to file
3. to chop

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 140, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1999
• Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 342, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5249

Chinese

simp. and trad.		剉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 剉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (坐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
脞	*sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳	*ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	*sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	*zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuò (cuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): co³
• Eastern Min (BUC): chó̤i
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuò
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻo⁴
    • Yale: tswò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuoh
    • Palladius: цо (co)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: co³
    • Yale: cho
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tso³
    • Guangdong Romanization: co³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chó̤i
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔy²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhò
    • Tâi-lô: tshò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰo⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɤ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwaH

Rime
Character	剉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	麤卧切
Baxter	tshwaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwaH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	co3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤoj-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːls/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	剉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuò
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwaH ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁoj-s/
English	cut
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	剉
Reading #	1/1
No.	18057
Phonetic component	坐
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰoːls/

Definitions

剉

1. (archaic) to break, chop

   你說出半個字來，我就知之，把你這猢猻剝皮剉骨，將神魂貶在九幽之處，教你萬劫不得翻身！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
   你说出半个字来，我就知之，把你这猢狲剥皮剉骨，将神魂贬在九幽之处，教你万劫不得翻身！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

   From: Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, 16^th century CE

   Nǐ shuōchū bàn ge zì lái, wǒ jiù zhī zhī, bǎ nǐ zhè húsūn bō pí cuò gǔ, jiāng shén hún biǎn zài jiǔyōuzhīchù, jiào nǐ wàn jié bù dé fānshēn! [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (Eastern Min, Southern Min) to chop
3. (Hokkien) to mince; to chop finely; to cut into small pieces

Compounds

• 剉折
• 剉柴
• 剉樹 / 剉树
• 剉肉
• 剝皮剉骨 / 剥皮剉骨
• 心如刀剉
• 折剉
• 皮皮剉

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhoah

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoah
    • Tâi-lô: tshuah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuaʔ³²/

Definitions

剉

1. (Hokkien) alternative form of 掣 (chhoah)

Japanese

Kanji

剉

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. cut
2. file
3. trim

Readings

• On (unclassified): さ (sa)
• Kun: くじく (kujiku)、かどをとる (kadootoru, 剉る)

Korean

Hanja

剉 • (jwa) (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune–Reischauer chwa)

1. cut
2. file
3. trim
4. file