歙

歙 U+6B59, 歙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B59 ← 歘 [U+6B58] CJK Unified Ideographs 歚 → [U+6B5A]

Translingual

Han character

歙 (radical 76, 欠+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓人 (OMNO), four-corner 8718₂, composition ⿰翕欠)

1. to suck
2. name of a county in Anhui province

References

• KangXi: page 572, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16204
• Dae Jaweon: page 960, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2151, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6B59

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		歙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shè, xī, xié (she⁴, xi¹, xie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˋ, ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kap¹, sip³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shè
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˋ
    • Wade–Giles: shê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sié
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kap¹, sip³
    • Yale: kāp, sip
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kap⁷, sip⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: keb¹, xib³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐp̚⁵/, /siːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /hˠiɪp̚/, /ɕiᴇp̚/▼

Rime
Character	歙	歙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)	葉 (155)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	許及切	書涉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪp̚/	/ɕiᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚip̚/	/ɕiɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiep̚/	/ɕjæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjip̚/	/ɕiap̚/
Li Rong	/xjəp̚/	/ɕiɛp̚/
Wang Li	/xĭĕp̚/	/ɕĭɛp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯əp̚/	/ɕi̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi	she

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰjob/, /*qʰrub/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ xip ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)[ə]p/
English	contract (v.)
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	歙	歙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4996	5003
Phonetic component	合	合
Rime group	盍	緝
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	攝	吸
Old Chinese	/*qʰjob/	/*qʰrub/

Definitions

歙

1. (～縣) She (a county of Huangshan, Anhui, China)

Compounds

• 歙張／歙张
• 歙歙

• 歙漆阿膠／歙漆阿胶
• 歙硯／歙砚

• 歙肩
• 歙赩

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Japanese

Kanji

歙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. come together
2. meet
3. put away
4. store

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}; しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きふ (kifu, historical)}; しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
• Kun: すう (suu, 歙う)

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Korean

Hanja

歙 (eum 흡 (heup))

1. to suck

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Vietnamese

Han character

歙: Hán Nôm readings: hấp, sợ, thiệp

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