莏

莏 U+838F, 莏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-838F ← 莎 [U+838E] CJK Unified Ideographs 莐 → [U+8390]

Translingual

Han character

莏 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿手火竹 (TQFH), four-corner 4452₉, composition ⿱艹抄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1033, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31041
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3214, character 5
• Unihan data for U+838F

Chinese

trad.		莏
simp. #		莏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
硰	*ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl
娑	*saːl, *saːlʔ
挱	*saːl, *sraːl
挲	*saːl
桫	*saːl
渻	*saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
沙	*sraːl, *sraːls
紗	*sraːl
砂	*sraːl
鯊	*sraːl
裟	*sraːl
桬	*sraːl
髿	*sraːl, *soːl
魦	*sraːl, *soːl
莎	*soːl
莏	*soːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suō (suo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): co¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suō
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suo
    • Wade–Giles: so¹
    • Yale: swō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suo
    • Palladius: со (so)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: co¹
    • Yale: chō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tso¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: co¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swa

Rime
Character	莏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇禾切
Baxter	swa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/suɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/suɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swa/
Li Rong	/suɑ/
Wang Li	/suɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/suɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*soːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莏
Reading #	1/1
No.	11037
Phonetic component	沙
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	莎
Old Chinese	/*soːl/

Definitions

莏

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