㞎
| Codepoint | U+378E |
|---|---|
Translingual
Etymology
The character is the sound 巴 ba under a 尸 body radical, parallel to the character 屎, meaning faeces.
Han character
㞎 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸日山 (SAU), composition ⿸尸巴)
- Used in the compound words 屎㞎㞎 (shǐ bǎ ba) and 㞎㞎 (bǎ ba), which are children's slang for excrement, dung. The character 㞎 can also be colloquially rendered as 屎巴巴.
- (dialectal) Weight measurement
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 300, character 24
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 967, character 6
- Unihan data for U+378E
Cantonese
Hanzi
㞎 (jyutping baa2, paa4, Yale ba2, pa4)
Mandarin
Hanzi
㞎 (pinyin bǎ (ba3), pá (pa2), Wade-Giles pa3, p'a2)
Last modified on 3 January 2013, at 20:13