桖

桖 U+6856, 桖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6856 ← 桕 [U+6855] CJK Unified Ideographs 桗 → [U+6857]

Translingual

Han character

桖 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹月廿 (DHBT), four-corner 4791₂, composition ⿰木血)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 526, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14779
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1201, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6856

Chinese

simp. and trad.		桖

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 血 (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuè (xue⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuè
    • Wade–Giles: hsüeh⁴
    • Yale: sywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiueh
    • Palladius: сюэ (sjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: hyut³
    • Yale: hyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: hüd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hyːt̚³/

Definitions

桖

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) type of wood that is blood-red

   • 又有樹綿，一曰樹頭綿。以吉貝枝接烏桖，俟生時截去烏桖，樹長可八九尺，四季開花，夏秋尤盛。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     又有树绵，一曰树头绵。以吉贝枝接乌桖，俟生时截去乌桖，树长可八九尺，四季开花，夏秋尤盛。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1777, 李調元 《南越筆記》

     Yòu yǒu shù mián, yī yuē shù tóu mián. Yǐ jíbèi zhī jiē wū xuè, sì shēng shí jié qù wū xuè, shù cháng kě bā jiǔ chǐ, sìjì kāihuā, xià qiū yóu shèng. [Pinyin]

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