卸

See also: 缷

卸 U+5378, 卸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5378 ← 卷 [U+5377] CJK Unified Ideographs 卹 → [U+5379]

Translingual

Han character

卸 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+6 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 卩+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 人一尸中 (OMSL), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰𦈢卩)

1. to lay down
2. to retire from office

Derived characters

• 啣, 𪩆, 御, 𨓴, 𦖐, 𧌋, 𨨶

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2861
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 314, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5378

Chinese

trad.		卸
simp. #		卸
alternative forms		缷 寫／写

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Omission of 彳 in 御. 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ) still gives the sound.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sia
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sià

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siè
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh⁴
    • Yale: syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: se³
    • Yale: se
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sia
    • Hakka Romanization System: xia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xia⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯a⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sià
    • Tâi-lô: sià
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sia²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sia²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sia¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sia²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sjaeH

Rime
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	司夜切
Baxter	sjaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siaH/
Pan Wuyun	/siaH/
Shao Rongfen	/siaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaH/
Li Rong	/siaH/
Wang Li	/sĭaH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	se3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋjaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ sjæH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
English	to unload
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	卸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13166
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蝑
Old Chinese	/*sŋjaːs/

Definitions

卸

1. to unload
2. to take; to remove
3. to release; to shirk; to resign; to retire (from office)

Compounds

• 丟盔卸甲 / 丢盔卸甲
• 交卸
• 倒戈卸甲
• 傾卸卡車 / 倾卸卡车
• 傾卸機 / 倾卸机
• 卸下 (xièxià)
• 卸任 (xièrèn)
• 卸包袱
• 卸妝 / 卸妆 (xièzhuāng)
• 卸擔子 / 卸担子 (xièdànzi)
• 卸甲
• 卸甲坪 (Xièjiǎpíng)
• 卸甲店 (Xièjiǎdiàn)
• 卸磨殺驢 / 卸磨杀驴 (xièmòshālǘ)
• 卸肩
• 卸臉 / 卸脸 (xièliǎn)
• 卸貨 / 卸货 (xièhuò)
• 卸責 / 卸责 (xièzé)
• 卸除 (xièchú)
• 卸頂 / 卸顶
• 卸頭 / 卸头
• 大卸八塊 / 大卸八块
• 拆卸 (chāixiè)
• 拋戈卸甲 / 抛戈卸甲
• 推卸 (tuīxiè)
• 脫卸 / 脱卸
• 裝卸 / 装卸 (zhuāngxiè)
• 解衣卸甲
• 霸王卸甲

References

• “卸”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 卸

卸

(Jōyō kanji)

1. wholesale
2. to grate, grated

Readings

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: おろし (oroshi, 卸, Jōyō)、おろす (orosu, 卸す, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 卸(おろし)売(うり) (oroshiuri, “wholesale”)
  • 卸(おろし)売(う)り (oroshiuri, Alternative form of the above.)
• 卸(おろ)し金(がね) (oroshigane, “grater”)
• 大(だい)名(みょう)卸(おろ)し (daimyō-oroshi, “filleting a fish into three”)
• 棚(たな)卸(おろ)し (tanaoroshi, “inventory count”)

References

• “卸”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

卸 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)

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