粞

粞 U+7C9E, 粞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C9E ← 粝 [U+7C9D] CJK Unified Ideographs 粟 → [U+7C9F]

Translingual

Han character

粞 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火木一金田 (FDMCW), four-corner 9196₃, composition ⿰米西)

Derived characters

• 𥴅, 𪟱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 908, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26921
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3147, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7C9E

Chinese

trad.		粞
simp. #		粞
alternative forms		𱹊 Eastern Min 𥻥 Hokkien 𬖴 Hokkien 𥽕 Hokkien

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
粞	*sɯːl, *sɯːl
洒	*sraːls, *sɯːlʔ
西	*sɯːl
卤	*sɯːl
卥	*sɯːl
栖	*sɯːl, *sɯːls
茜	*sʰɯːns
哂	*hjɯnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī, sāi (xi¹, sai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄙㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹
• Northern Min (KCR): cha̿i
• Eastern Min (BUC): chá̤
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): se¹ / coe⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhòe / chhè

  (Teochew, Peng'im): coi³

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): coi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sai
    • Wade–Giles: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sai
    • Palladius: сай (saj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cha̿i
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰai³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chá̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: se¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sa̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: se¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe⁵⁴⁴/
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: coe⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: che̤̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰø⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhòe
    • Tâi-lô: tshuè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoex
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰue²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰue¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhè
    • Tâi-lô: tshè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhex
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰe²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: coi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshòi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰoi²¹³/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: coi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɔi²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sej, soj

Rime
Character	粞	粞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	I
Fanqie	先稽切	蘇來切
Baxter	sej	soj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/	/sʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/	/səi/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/	/sɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/	/səj/
Li Rong	/sei/	/sᴀi/
Wang Li	/siei/	/sɒi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siei/	/sɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī	sāi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai1	soi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	粞	粞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13234	13240
Phonetic component	西	西
Rime group	微	微
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	鰓	西
Old Chinese	/*sɯːl/	/*sɯːl/

Definitions

粞

1. (literary) crushed rice; broken rice
2. (dialectal) rice husk
3. (Min) rice flour; rice dough (made from grinding glutinous rice and with water squeezed out, used to make rice delicacies)

Synonyms

• (rice dough): (Hokkien) 米粞, 粿粞

Compounds

• 圓仔粞 / 圆仔粞
• 大米粞
• 白粞粞
• 米粞
• 粞粞白
• 粿粞
• 糍粞
• 糠粞
• 肚裡無粞 / 肚里无粞
• 雨粞
• 麥粞 / 麦粞
• 麥粞包 / 麦粞包

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “粞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 251.

Japanese

Kanji

粞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せい (sei)、さい (sai)
• Kun: こごめ (kogome)