喳

喳 U+55B3, 喳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55B3 ← 喲 [U+55B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 喴 → [U+55B4]

喳 U+2F849, 喳 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F849 ← 喫 [U+2F848] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 嗂 → [U+2F84A]

Translingual

Han character

喳 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口木日一 (RDAM), four-corner 6401₆, composition ⿰口查)

1. chirp, twitter
2. whispering

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4022
• Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 651, character 2
• Unihan data for U+55B3

• Unihan data for U+2F849

Chinese

trad.		喳
simp. #		喳

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chā, zhā (cha¹, zha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄚ, ㄓㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaa¹, caa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhā

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chā
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cha
    • Wade–Giles: chʻa¹
    • Yale: chā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cha
    • Palladius: ча (ča)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhā
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jha
    • Wade–Giles: cha¹
    • Yale: jā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ja
    • Palladius: чжа (čža)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaa¹, caa¹
    • Yale: jā, chā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaa¹, tsaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: za¹, ca¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saː⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhā
    • Tâi-lô: tshā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zha
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰa²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰa²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰa³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰa³³/

Definitions

喳

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of birds tweeting loudly.

Compounds

• 吱吱喳喳 (zhīzhīzhāzhā)
• 吱喳
• 咯吱咯喳
• 唧唧喳喳
• 喳咋 (zhāzǎ)
• 喳呼
• 喳喳
• 嗱喳
• 嗻兒喳兒／嗻儿喳儿
• 嘁哩喀喳
• 嘁嘁喳喳 (qīqīchāchā)
• 嘴喳喳
• 嘰嘰喳喳／叽叽喳喳
• 嚌喳／哜喳
• 打喳喳
• 摩摩喳喳 (mómózhāzhā)
• 支支喳喳
• 格喳
• 波喳
• 謊喳呼／谎喳呼

 

Etymology 2

Misinterpreted from Manchu ᠵᡝ (je). Compare Mongolian ᠵᠠ (ǰa) (Cyrillic spelling за (za)).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhā (zha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhā
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jha
    • Wade–Giles: cha¹
    • Yale: jā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ja
    • Palladius: чжа (čža)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaa¹
    • Yale: jā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: za¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saː⁵⁵/

Definitions

喳

1. (historical, chiefly in novels, movies or dramas) yes (when responding to the emperor or a Manchu official in the Qing dynasty)

Usage notes

The correct transliteration of Manchu ᠵᡝ (je) should be 嗻 (zhè), and the word corresponding to 喳 is ᠵᠠ (ja), which means "cheap" or "easy".

Japanese

Kanji

喳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さ (sa)
• Kun: さわぐ (sawagu)

Korean

Hanja

喳 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

喳: Hán Nôm readings: tra

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