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賒

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See also: 赊
賒 U+8CD2, 賒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CD2
← 賑
[U+8CD1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賓 →
[U+8CD3]

Translingual

Han character

賒 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月金人一火 (BCOMF), four-corner 68891, composition ⿰貝佘)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1208, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 49736
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3642, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+8CD2

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (余) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Originally written as 賖, which is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljaː): semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 余 (OC *la) – to buy or sell on credit.

In the era of Middle Chinese, a vulgar form 𧶟, also a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) with phonetic component 舍 (MC syaeX|syaeH) that was more similar-sounding to the character, once appeared but never became popularized.

The current form 賒 appeared as a vulgar form at the Ming-Qing transition and is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) with phonetic component 佘 that is similar-sounding to the character.

Etymology

According to STEDT, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m/s-laj ~ r/s-lej ~ b-rej (“to change, exchange, buy”) (whence also 移 (OC *lal, “change, alter”) & 易 (OC *leɡ, “change, exchange”)); if so, Chinese vocalism might have been influenced by superficially similar words like 舍 (OC *hljaːʔ, “to bestow, to give”) (Schuessler, 2007).

商 (OC *hljaŋ) is its derivative with terminative suffix *-ŋ; 貰 (OC), minimally reconstructed as *lhas ~ *m-las, is another with *-s > *-h extrovert suffix (ibid.).

Thai แลก (lɛ̂ɛk)'s possible relation to 賒 (OC *hljaː) (ibid.) is through its cognate 易 (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ), wherefrom arose Thai แลก (lɛ̂ɛk), Lao ແລກ (lǣk), Shan လႅၵ်ႈ (lēk), Tai Nüa ᥘᥦᥐ (laek), & Ahom 𑜎𑜢𑜀𑜫 (lik) (Pittayaporn, 2014)

Lastly, Bodman (1980)) proposes cognacy to Tibetan གྱར་བ (gyar ba, “to borrow, to lend, to hire”).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

賒

  1. to buy and sell on credit
    賒賬／赊账  ―  shēzhàng  ―  to buy or sell on credit
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to forgive
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) distant; far
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of time) long; long-standing
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sparse; rare
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) slow

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (賒):
  • → Vietnamese: xa (賒)

References

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Japanese

Kanji

賒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)

Tày

Verb

賒 (xa)

  1. Nôm form of xa (“to search, to look for”).
    𫢋嗺燕九重𫠯賒
    Vủt xoi ẻn cửu túng lồng xa
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

  • Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

賒: Hán Việt readings: xa
賒: Nôm readings: xa

  1. far

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