汏

汏 U+6C4F, 汏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C4F ← 汎 [U+6C4E] CJK Unified Ideographs 汐 → [U+6C50]

Translingual

Han character

汏 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水大 (EK), four-corner 3413₀, composition ⿰氵大)

1. (dialect) to wash

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 605, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17121
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1552, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C4F

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		汏

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-labs (“wave”) (provisional); cognate with Tibetan རླབས (rlabs) (STEDT; Bodman, 1980; Schuessler, 2007).

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
馱	*daːl, *daːds
大	*daːds, *daːds
忕	*tʰaːds, *daːds, *djads
太	*tʰaːds
汰	*tʰaːds
汏	*daːds, *tʰaːd
軑	*daːds, *deːds
釱	*daːds, *deːds
达	*tʰeːds
杕	*deːds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːds, *tʰaːd): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dài, dà (dai⁴, da⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄞˋ, ㄉㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶
• Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): thōa
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Shanghainese): ⁶da

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dài
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dài
    • Wade–Giles: tai⁴
    • Yale: dài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: day
    • Palladius: дай (daj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dà
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dà
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴
    • Yale: dà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dah
    • Palladius: да (da)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶
    • Yale: daaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thōa
    • Tâi-lô: thuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰua³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰua³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wugniu: ⁶da
    • Wiktionary Romanisation: ³da
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /da²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dajH, that

Rime
Character	汏	汏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	寒 (63)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒蓋切	他達切
Baxter	dajH	that
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dajH/	/tʰat̚/
Li Rong	/dɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Wang Li	/dɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑiH/	/tʰɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	ta
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai6	taat3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːds/, /*tʰaːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汏	汏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1940	1949
Phonetic component	大	大
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	大	闥
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*tʰaːd/

Definitions

汏

1. (Wu, including Shanghainese Wu, Suzhou Wu) to rinse; to wash

   汏手 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁶da ⁵seu [Wugniu]  ―  to wash one's hands

2. great wave

   • 乘舲船余上沅兮，齊吳榜以擊汏。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     乘舲船余上沅兮，齐吴榜以击汏。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Chéng língchuán yú shàng Yuán xī, qí Wúbàng yǐ jī dài. [Pinyin]

     Boarding a small boat on the Yuan I float upstream; long oars of Wu strike the waves in unison.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 洗 (“to wash”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		洗
Mandarin	Beijing	洗
	Taiwan	洗
	Jinan	洗
	Xi'an	洗
	Wuhan	洗
	Chengdu	洗
	Guilin	洗
	Yangzhou	洗
	Hefei	洗
	Singapore	洗
Cantonese	Guangzhou	洗
	Hong Kong	洗
	Yangjiang	洗
	Singapore (Guangfu)	洗
Gan	Nanchang	洗
Hakka	Meixian	洗
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	洗
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	洗
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	洗
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	洗
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	洗
Jin	Taiyuan	洗
Min Bei	Jian'ou	洗
Min Dong	Fuzhou	洗
Min Nan	Xiamen	洗
	Singapore (Hokkien)	洗
	Chaozhou	洗
Wu	Shanghai	汏
	Shanghai (Shuangcaodun, Baoshan)	汏
	Shanghai (Luodian, Baoshan)	汏
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	汏, 淨
	Suzhou	汏
	Suzhou (Lili, Wujiang)	汏
	Suzhou (Shengze, Wujiang)	汏
	Wuxi	汏
	Changshu	汏
	Kunshan	汏
	Jiaxing	汏
	Changzhou	洗, 揩, 汏
	Liyang	洗
	Jintan	洗
	Yixing	汏
	Danyang	洗
	Danyang (Tongjiaqiao)	洗
	Jingjiang	洗
	Jiangyin	代, 汏 rare
	Huzhou (Shuanglin)	汏
	Hangzhou	汏, 洗
	Zhuji (Wangjiajing)	洗
	Shengzhou (Taiping)	洗
	Ningbo	⿰氵丈
	Yuyao	汏
	Huangyan	洗, 汏
	Wenzhou	洗, 盪
	Quzhou	洗, 汏 rare
	Jinhua	洗, 汏
	Yongkang	洗
Xiang	Changsha	洗
	Shuangfeng	洗

Compounds

• 汏手
• 汏枋
• 汏浴
• 汏浴間／汏浴间
• 汏衣裳機／汏衣裳机
• 汏衣裳粉
• 汏面

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 汏 – see 汰 (“to rinse; to wash away; to discard; to eliminate through competition or selection; etc.”). (This character, 汏, is a variant form of 汰.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02014
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02147

Japanese

Kanji

汏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たい (tai); だい (dai); たつ (tatsu); たち (tachi)
• Kun: あるう (aruu)

Korean

Hanja

汏 (eum 대 (dae))

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Zhuang

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːds, *tʰaːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds)

Noun

汏

1. Sawndip form of dah (“river”)