絜

絜 U+7D5C, 絜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D5C ← 絛 [U+7D5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 絝 → [U+7D5D]

Translingual

Han character

絜 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手竹女戈火 (QHVIF), four-corner 5790₃, composition ⿱㓞糸)

1. a marking line
2. ascertain, assess
3. measure

Derived characters

• 㓗, 噄, 潔, 䐼, 䥛, 緳

Additional Derived Characters

• 𠎧, 𡐤, 𢴲, 𣚃, 𤏦, 𤩦, 𥊯, 𪿶, 𥢪, 𥪲, 𮉄, 𬭴, 𪅸, 𤺚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 922, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27419
• Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3389, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D5C

Chinese

trad.		絜
simp. #		絜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯	*kreːds
瘛	*kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢	*ɡjeds
契	*kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔	*kʰeːds
禊	*ɡeːds
稧	*ɡeːds
楔	*kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜	*kʰreːd
猰	*qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫	*qreːd
揳	*sqʰeːd
偰	*sqʰeːd
潔	*keːd
絜	*keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥	*keːd, *kʰeːd
挈	*kʰeːd
蛪	*kʰeːd
齧	*ŋeːd
褉	*qʰeːd
喫	*ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *keːd, *ɡeːd): phonetic 㓞 (qià) + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xié, jié (xie², jie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ, ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): git³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sié
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²
    • Yale: syé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jié
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jié
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²
    • Yale: jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: git³
    • Yale: git
    • Cantonese Pinyin: git⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: ket, het

Rime
Character	絜	絜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	古屑切	胡結切
Baxter	ket	het
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ket̚/	/ɦet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ket̚/	/ɦet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛt̚/	/ɣɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛt̚/	/ɦɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ket̚/	/ɣet̚/
Wang Li	/kiet̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiet̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git3	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːd/, /*ɡeːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	絜	絜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6508	6518
Phonetic component	丯	丯
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	結	纈
Old Chinese	/*keːd/	/*ɡeːd/

Definitions

絜

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be clean; to be pure
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wash
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to regulate
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) marking line

References

• “絜”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

絜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu)、けち (kechi)、けい (kei)、かつ (katsu)
• Kun: あさ (asa)、たば (taba)、きよい (kiyoi)

Korean

Hanja

絜 • (hyeol) (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune–Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

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