嚱

嚱 U+56B1, 嚱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56B1 ← 嚰 [U+56B0] CJK Unified Ideographs 嚲 → [U+56B2]

Translingual

Han character

嚱 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 口卜廿戈 (RYTI), composition ⿰口戲)

1. a shrill sound
2. alas!

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 213, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4579
• Dae Jaweon: page 436, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 703, character 26
• Unihan data for U+56B1

Chinese

trad.		嚱
simp.		𰇣
alternative forms		𡃰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唬	*qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲	*qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇	*qʰra
隵	*qʰra
嚱	*qʰras
盧	*b·raː
鑪	*raː
壚	*raː
籚	*raː
蘆	*raː, *ra
顱	*b·raː
髗	*b·raː
鱸	*raː
攎	*raː
櫨	*raː
轤	*raː
黸	*raː
獹	*raː
鸕	*raː
艫	*raː
纑	*raː
瀘	*raː
瓐	*raː
爐	*raː
嚧	*raː
矑	*b·raː
罏	*raː
蠦	*raː
虜	*raːʔ
擄	*raːʔ
艣	*raːʔ
鐪	*raːʔ
虖	*qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍	*qʰaː
雐	*qʰʷlaː
虎	*qʰlaːʔ
琥	*qʰlaːʔ
萀	*qʰlaːʔ
臚	*b·ra
廬	*ra
驢	*b·ra
藘	*ra
爈	*ra, *ras
櫖	*ra, *ras
儢	*raʔ
慮	*ras
勴	*ras
鑢	*ras
濾	*ras
攄	*r̥ʰa
處	*kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦	*kas, *ɡa
據	*kas
鐻	*kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽	*kas, *ɡas
虛	*kʰa, *qʰa
墟	*kʰa
懅	*ɡa
蘧	*ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧	*ɡa
醵	*ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩	*ɡa
虡	*ɡaʔ
遽	*ɡas
勮	*ɡas
噓	*qʰa, *qʰas
驉	*qʰa
歔	*qʰa
魖	*qʰa
膚	*pla
虧	*kʰʷral
噱	*ɡaɡ
臄	*ɡaɡ
劇	*ɡaɡ
諕	*qʰʷraːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjeH

Rime
Character	嚱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	香義切
Baxter	xjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjiə̆H/
Li Rong	/xjeH/
Wang Li	/xǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰras/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚱
Reading #	1/1
No.	5198
Phonetic component	虍
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戲
Old Chinese	/*qʰras/

Definitions

嚱

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01537
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嚱”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

嚱

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: こえ (koe)、ああ (ā)

Korean

Hanja

嚱 (eum 희 (hui))

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚱: Hán Nôm readings: hi

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References

• Nom Foundation