匝

匝

匝 U+531D, 匝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-531D ← 匜 [U+531C] CJK Unified Ideographs 匞 → [U+531E]

Translingual

Han character

匝 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸中月 (SLB), four-corner 7171₂, composition ⿷匚巾)

Derived characters

• 𠇽 咂 㧜 𣐝 𦚗 砸 鉔 𦭧

References

• KangXi: page 153, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2599
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 82, character 4
• Unihan data for U+531D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匝
alternative forms		帀 迊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
帀	*ʔsuːb
沞	*ʔsuːb
魳	*ʔsuːb
迊	*ʔsuːb
匝	*ʔsuːb
咂	*ʔsuːb
韴	*zuːb
砸	*zaːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zā (za¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap³
• Min Dong (BUC): cák
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zab⁴ / zag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zā
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: za
    • Wade–Giles: tsa¹
    • Yale: dzā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tza
    • Palladius: цза (cza)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaap³
    • Yale: jaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːp̚³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cák
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chat
    • Tâi-lô: tsat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sat̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zab⁴ / zag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsap / tsak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sap̚²/, /t͡sak̚²/

Note:

• zab4 - Chaozhou;
• zag4 - Shantou.

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匝
Reading #	1/1
No.	16480
Phonetic component	帀
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuːb/
Notes	帀通行體見六韜， 廣韻集韻左下原作之

Definitions

匝

1. (literary or dialectal) Classifier for circuits or circles.

   • 月明星稀，烏鵲南飛。繞樹三匝，何枝可依？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     月明星稀，乌鹊南飞。绕树三匝，何枝可依？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 曹操 (Cao Cao), 《短歌行》

     Yuèmíngxīngxī, wūquè nán fēi. Rào shù sān zā, hé zhī kě yī? [Pinyin]

     The moon is bright and the stars are few, and southward the crows flew. Circling the tree thrice, on which branch can they perch?

2. (dialectal) Classifier for times, as in frequency.

   雨逿一匝復逿一匝 [Min Dong, trad.]
   雨𰺲一匝复𰺲一匝 [Min Dong, simp.]

   From: 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects], Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN, page 890

   huô dâung siŏh cák bô dâung siŏh cák / [huɔ²⁴² tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵ t͡sɑʔ²⁴ pou²⁴² tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵ t͡sɑʔ²⁴] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   It rains again and again

3. (literary) to surround
4. (literary) to spread all over; to reach (a limit)

   匝地  ―  zādì  ―  to be all over the ground

   匝月  ―  zāyuè  ―  to reach one month

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 次 (“time (frequency)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		度
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		次, 回, 遍
Mandarin	Taiwan	次
	Malaysia	次
	Singapore	次
Cantonese	Guangzhou	次
	Hong Kong	次
	Macau	次
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	次, 擺
	Singapore (Guangfu)	次, 擺
Hakka	Meixian	擺
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	擺
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	次
	Liannan	次
	Jiexi	輪
	Changting	回
	Wuping	下, 到
	Ninghua	回
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	擺, 到
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	擺, 到
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	擺, 到
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	擺, 到
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	擺, 到
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	擺, 回
	Hong Kong	次
	Senai (Huiyang)	擺
Min Dong	Fuzhou	匝
Min Nan	Xiamen	擺, 斗
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	擺
	Quanzhou	擺, 斗
	Anxi	擺
	Zhangzhou	擺, 斗
	Zhao'an	次, 擺
	Tainan	擺, 改, 斗
	Penang (Hokkien)	斗
	Singapore (Hokkien)	擺
	Manila (Hokkien)	擺
	Chaozhou	匝, 過
	Jieyang	匝, 過, 擺
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	次, 匝
	Singapore (Teochew)	擺, 匝
	Wenchang	下, 次
Wu	Shanghai	次, 埭, 趟, 頓, 遍, 場, 轉, 下
	Shanghai (Chongming)	趟, 頓, 場
	Suzhou	趟, 頓, 場
	Danyang	頓, 場
	Hangzhou	埭, 趟, 頓, 通
	Ningbo	回, 埭, 卯, 遭 dated, 記

Compounds

交匝 刮刮匝匝 匝匝 匝月 (zāyuè) 匝道 (zādào)

匼匝 (kēzā) 周匝 (zhōuzā) 密匝匝 (mìzāzā) 密密匝匝 (mìmìzāzā) 曲匝

漫天匝地 笙歌匝地 逼匝 輪匝帶／轮匝带 迴匝／回匝

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Japanese

Kanji

匝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to go around
2. Classifier for circuits or circles

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←そふ (sofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さふ (safu, historical)}
• Kun: めぐる (meguru, 匝る)

Compounds

• 匝(そう)瑳(さ) (Sōsa)
• 匝(そう)線(せん) (sōsen)
• 一(いっ)匝(そう) (issō)
• 環(かん)匝(そう) (kansō)
• 朞(き)匝(そう) (kisō)
• 鉿(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 匼(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 瞌(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 周(しゅう)匝(そう) (shūsō) (周(しゅう)帀(そう))

 

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Korean

Hanja

匝 (eum 잡 (jap))

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Vietnamese

Han character

匝: Hán Nôm readings: táp

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