繲

繲 U+7E72, 繲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E72 ← 繱 [U+7E71] CJK Unified Ideographs 繳 → [U+7E73]

Translingual

Han character

繲 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓月手 (VFNBQ), four-corner 2795₂, composition ⿰糹解)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 940, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27956
• Dae Jaweon: page 1380, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3461, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7E72

Chinese

trad.		繲
simp.		𰬽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
薢	*kreː, *kreːʔ, *kreːs
解	*kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs
檞	*kreːʔ
懈	*kreːs
繲	*kreːs
廨	*kreːs
蟹	*ɡreːʔ
獬	*ɡreːʔ
澥	*ɡreːʔ
嶰	*ɡreːʔ
邂	*ɡreːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kreːs): semantic 糹 + phonetic 解 (OC *kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs). Not recorded in Shuowen.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiè, xiè (jie⁴, xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ, ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faai³ / haai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiè
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴
    • Yale: jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
  • (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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: faai³ / haai⁵
    • Yale: faai / háaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faai³ / haai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: fai³ / hai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːi̯³³/, /haːi̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: keaH

Rime
Character	繲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	佳 (31)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古隘切
Baxter	keaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæH/
Shao Rongfen	/kæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨjH/
Li Rong	/kɛH/
Wang Li	/kaiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jià
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kreːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	繲
Reading #	1/1
No.	6479
Phonetic component	解
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	懈
Old Chinese	/*kreːs/

Definitions

繲

1. (historical dictionaries only) old clothes
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to wash clothes

   • 挫鍼治繲，足以糊口；鼓筴播精，足以食十人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     挫针治𰬽，足以糊口；鼓策播精，足以食十人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Cuò qián zhì jiè, zúyǐ húkǒu; gǔ jiā bō jīng, zúyǐ sì shí rén. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

• “繲”, 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–