褻

See also: 亵

褻 U+893B, 褻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-893B ← 褺 [U+893A] CJK Unified Ideographs 褼 → [U+893C]

Translingual

Han character

褻 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜土戈女 (YGIV), four-corner 0073₂, composition ⿴衣埶 or ⿳亠埶𧘇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1123, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34536
• Dae Jaweon: page 1591, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3109, character 11
• Unihan data for U+893B

Chinese

trad.		褻
simp.		亵
alternative forms		䙝／亵 𣊓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 褻
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
褹	*ŋr'eːds, *ŋeds
勢	*hŋjeds
藝	*ŋeds
囈	*ŋeds
埶	*ŋeds
蓺	*ŋeds
槸	*ŋeds
爇	*ŋʷjed
褻	*sŋed
暬	*sŋed
熱	*ŋjed
槷	*ŋeːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sŋed): semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 埶 (OC *ŋeds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit³

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• 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: sit³
    • Yale: sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjet

Rime
Character	褻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	私列切
Baxter	sjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siat̚/
Li Rong	/siɛt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ŋet/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋed/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	褻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ sjet ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ŋet/
English	garment next to the body
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	褻
Reading #	1/1
No.	15097
Phonetic component	埶
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	薛
Old Chinese	/*sŋed/

Definitions

褻

1. licentious; intimate; light-hearted
2. disrespectful
3. (obsolete) close-fitting underwear
4. (obsolete) casual clothes worn at home

Compounds

• 交褻 / 交亵
• 俚褻 / 俚亵
• 偎褻 / 偎亵
• 卑褻 / 卑亵
• 嘲褻 / 嘲亵
• 委褻 / 委亵
• 媟褻 / 媟亵
• 嬉褻 / 嬉亵
• 戲褻 / 戏亵
• 敝褻 / 敝亵
• 汙褻 / 污亵
• 淫褻 / 淫亵 (yín xiè)
• 淫詞褻語 / 淫词亵语
• 溷褻 / 溷亵
• 煩褻 / 烦亵
• 燕褻 / 燕亵
• 狎褻 / 狎亵
• 猥褻 / 猥亵 (wěixiè)
• 私褻 / 私亵 (sīxiè)
• 穢褻 / 秽亵
• 簡褻 / 简亵
• 褻人 / 亵人
• 褻侮 / 亵侮
• 褻刑 / 亵刑
• 褻味 / 亵味
• 褻器 / 亵器
• 褻嫚 / 亵嫚
• 褻寵 / 亵宠
• 褻尊 / 亵尊
• 褻幸 / 亵幸
• 褻御 / 亵御
• 褻慢 / 亵慢
• 褻昵
• 褻服 / 亵服 (xièfú)
• 褻汙 / 亵污
• 褻污 / 亵污
• 褻濫 / 亵滥
• 褻瀆 / 亵渎 (xièdú)
• 褻狎 / 亵狎
• 褻玩 / 亵玩 (xièwán)
• 褻視 / 亵视
• 褻絆 / 亵绊
• 褻翫 / 亵玩
• 褻臣 / 亵臣
• 褻衣 / 亵衣 (xièyī)
• 褻裘 / 亵裘
• 褻語 / 亵语
• 褻諢 / 亵诨
• 褻謔 / 亵谑
• 褻越 / 亵越
• 褻近 / 亵近
• 褻露 / 亵露
• 褻饌 / 亵馔
• 褻黷 / 亵黩
• 謗褻 / 谤亵
• 輕褻 / 轻亵
• 輶褻 / 𬨎亵
• 鄙褻 / 鄙亵
• 鄙褻語 / 鄙亵语
• 醜褻 / 丑亵
• 驕褻 / 骄亵

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 褻

褻

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (け) informal
2. (けがす) defile, profane

Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: け (ke, 褻)、なれる (nareru, 褻れる)、けがす (kegasu, 褻す)、けがれる (kegareru, 褻れる)

Noun

Kanji in this term
褻
け Hyōgai
kun'yomi

褻(け) • (ke) 

1. informal; everyday affairs

   晴(は)れと褻(け)

   hare to ke

   the formal and informal

Synonyms

• 日常(にちじょう) (nichijō)

Antonyms

• 晴(は)れ (hare, “formal”)

References

• “^▲褻”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

褻 • (seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune–Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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