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Translingual
Han character
窄 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹尸 (JCHS), four-corner 30211, composition ⿱穴乍)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 864, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25455
- Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2726, character 6
- Unihan data for U+7A84
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsraːɡ): semantic 穴 (“cave; hole”) + phonetic 乍 (OC *zraːɡs)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chak
- Eastern Min (BUC): cáh
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7tsaq
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zhǎi
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhǎi
- Wade–Giles: chai3
- Yale: jǎi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jae
- Palladius: чжай (čžaj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zé
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: zé
- Wade–Giles: tsê2
- Yale: dzé
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzer
- Palladius: цзэ (czɛ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɤ³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: ze2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ze
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɛ²¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
- Jyutping: zaak3
- Yale: jaak
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak8
- Guangdong Romanization: zag3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡saːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chak
- Hakka Romanization System: zagˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: zag5
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sak̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cáh
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɑʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
- Tâi-lô: tsiak
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
- Tâi-lô: tsik
- Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: za3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsà
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sa²¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Wu
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: tsraek
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤrak/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsraːɡ/
Definitions
窄
- narrow; (of rooms, pants, etc.) tight
- narrow-minded
- (colloquial) badly off; hard up
- (Cantonese) unlikely; barely possible; unfavourable; slim (very small)
Synonyms
- (narrow):
- 侷促 (júcù)
- 促狹 / 促狭 (cùxiá) (literary)
- 局 (kio̍k) (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 狹奪 / 狭夺 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 狹奪奪 / 狭夺夺 (Hokkien)
- 狹小 / 狭小 (xiáxiǎo)
- 狹櫼櫼 / 狭櫼櫼 (Hokkien)
- 狹𤲍楔 / 狭𤲍楔 (Hokkien)
- 狹𤲍𤲍 / 狭𤲍𤲍 (Hokkien)
- 狹突突 / 狭突突 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 狹窄 / 狭窄 (xiázhǎi)
- 狹細 / 狭细 (Hokkien)
- 狹閉不 / 狭闭不 (Hokkien)
- 狹隘 / 狭隘 (xiá'ài)
- 窄小 (zhǎixiǎo)
- 褊狹 / 褊狭 (biǎnxiá) (literary)
- 逼仄 (bīzè) (literary)
- (narrow-minded):
- (badly off):
- 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
- 困乏 (kùnfá) (formal)
- 困窘 (kùnjiǒng)
- 困窮 / 困穷 (kùnqióng)
- 困苦 (kùnkǔ)
- 困難 / 困难
- 困頓 / 困顿 (kùndùn)
- 宋凶 (Hokkien)
- 散 (Hokkien)
- 散凶 (Hokkien)
- 散赤 (Hokkien)
- 清苦 (qīngkǔ) (especially of scholars and intellectuals)
- 淡薄 (dànbó) (literary)
- 清貧 / 清贫 (qīngpín) (especially of scholars and intellectuals)
- 㾪赤 (Hokkien)
- 磽 / 硗 (Teochew)
- 䆀康 (Hokkien)
- 空乏 (kòngfá) (literary)
- 窘促 (jiǒngcù) (literary)
- 窘困 (jiǒngkùn)
- 窘迫 (jiǒngpò)
- 窮 / 穷 (qióng)
- 窮乏 / 穷乏 (qióngfá) (literary)
- 窮困 / 穷困 (qióngkùn)
- 窮㾪 / 穷㾪 (Hokkien)
- 窮苦 / 穷苦 (qióngkǔ)
- 窮赤 / 穷赤 (Hokkien)
- 艱苦 / 艰苦 (Hokkien)
- 苦寒 (kǔhán)
- 貧乏 / 贫乏 (pínfá)
- 貧困 / 贫困 (pínkùn)
- 貧寒 / 贫寒 (pínhán)
- 貧瘠 / 贫瘠 (pínjí) (literary)
- 貧窮 / 贫穷 (pínqióng)
- 貧苦 / 贫苦 (pínkǔ)
Antonyms
Compounds
References
- “窄”, 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
窄
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Readings
Proper noun
- a surname
Korean
Hanja
窄 • (chak) (hangeul 착, McCune–Reischauer ch'ak, Yale chak)
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Vietnamese
Han character
窄: Hán Nôm readings: trách, trậc
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