帀

See also: 币, 匝, 市, and ㄭ

帀 U+5E00, 帀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E00 ← 巿 [U+5DFF] CJK Unified Ideographs 币 → [U+5E01]

Translingual

Han character

帀 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一中月 (MLB), composition ⿱一巾 or ⿻丅冂)

Derived characters

• 師 (师)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 328, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8773
• Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 728, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E00

Chinese

simp. and trad.		帀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
帀	*ʔsuːb
沞	*ʔsuːb
魳	*ʔsuːb
迊	*ʔsuːb
匝	*ʔsuːb
咂	*ʔsuːb
韴	*zuːb
砸	*zaːd

Uncertain. Shuowen interprets the glyph as an inverted 之.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zā (za¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zā
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: za
    • Wade–Giles: tsa¹
    • Yale: dzā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tza
    • Palladius: цза (cza)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zaap³
    • Yale: jaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsop

Rime
Character	帀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	子荅切
Baxter	tsop
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡səp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡səp̚/
Li Rong	/t͡sᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sɒp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡săp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	za
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zaap3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤ[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	帀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zā
Middle Chinese	‹ tsop ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁ[ə]p/
English	a round, a circle
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	帀
Reading #	1/1
No.	16476
Phonetic component	帀
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuːb/

Definitions

帀

1. alternative form of 匝 (zā)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 帀 – see 師 (“division of 2500 soldiers; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 師).

Japanese

Kanji

帀

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to go round; to make a circuit; to make a revolution; to turn round

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: めぐる (meguru)、めぐらす (megurasu)、めぐり (meguri)

Korean

Hanja

帀 (eum 잡 (jap))

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Vietnamese

Han character

帀: Hán Nôm readings: táp

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