浙

浙 U+6D59, 浙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D59 ← 浘 [U+6D58] CJK Unified Ideographs 浚 → [U+6D5A]

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

A combination of semantic 氵 ("water", used for rivers) + phonetic 折 (Old Chinese: *tet), although usually glossed as semantic as well ("broken, crooked, bent").

Han characterEdit

浙 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹中 (EQHL), four-corner 3212₁, composition ⿰氵折)

1. (geography, abbreviation) Short for 浙江: Zhejiang, the coastal province of eastern China lying between Hangzhou Bay and Fujian.
2. (historical, geography) A former name of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang.

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 623, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17458
• Dae Jaweon: page 1021, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1618, character 20
• Unihan data for U+6D59

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		浙

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 浙
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
晢	*ʔljeds, *ʔljed
狾	*ʔljeds
誓	*ɦljeds
逝	*ɦljeds
銴	*ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds
折	*l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎	*hleːws, *qʰred
哳	*ʔr'eːd
踅	*sɢʷled
哲	*ʔl'ed
蜇	*ʔl'ed
悊	*ʔl'ed
嚞	*ted
喆	*ted
硩	*l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ
浙	*ʔljed
晣	*ʔljed
焎	*hred

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhè (zhe⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³
• Min Nan (POJ): chiat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhè
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zit³
    • Yale: jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jid³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiat
    • Tâi-lô: tsiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɛt̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇt̚/▼

Rime
Character	浙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	旨熱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciat̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhe

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔljed/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	浙
Reading #	1/1
No.	16948
Phonetic component	折
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	晢
Old Chinese	/*ʔljed/

DefinitionsEdit

浙

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CompoundsEdit

• 兩浙／两浙
• 江浙
• 浙本

• 浙東／浙东
• 浙東學派／浙东学派
• 浙江 (Zhèjiāng)

• 浙江潮
• 浙贛鐵路／浙赣铁路

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

浙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: よなげる (yonageru)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

浙 • (jeol)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 절 (revised: jeol, McCune-Reischauer: chŏl, Yale: cel)
  • Name (hangeul): 강

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

浙 (chiết)

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