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Translingual
Han character
燮 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火火水 (FFE), four-corner 99407, composition ⿱⿲火言火又)
Derived characters
Further reading
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 685, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19481
- Dae Jaweon: page 1098, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 402, character 12
- Unihan data for U+71EE
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Chinese
Glyph origin
In the oracle bone script, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): a hand (又) holding an object (?) among three or more fires (火). Meaning and significance uncertain.
Various hypotheses exist: possibly poking at firewood, holding a tool inside flames, lighting fires with a torch, etc.
Later, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 又 (“hand”) + 辛 (“tool”) + 炏 (“fire”). In the small seal script, the 辛 component came to be written 言, giving rise to the modern form.
Pronunciation
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: sit3 / sip3
- Yale: sit / sip
- Cantonese Pinyin: sit8 / sip8
- Guangdong Romanization: xid3 / xib3
- Sinological IPA (key): /siːt̚³/, /siːp̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: sep
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qʰˤ(r)ip/
- (Zhengzhang): /*seːb/
Definitions
燮
- (literary) to harmonize; to mediate; to bring together
- (literary) harmonious; amiable
- a surname
Compounds
References
- “燮”, 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–
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Japanese
Kanji
燮
Readings
- Go-on: しょう (shō)←せふ (sefu, historical)
- Kan-on: しょう (shō)←せふ (sefu, historical)
- Kun: やわらげる (yawarageru, 燮らげる)
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Hanja
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