卸

See also: 缷

卸	U+5378, 卸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5378

← 卷
[U+5377]

CJK Unified Ideographs

卹 →
[U+5379]

Translingual

Han character

卸 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+6 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 卩+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 人一尸中 (OMSL), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰𦈢卩)

to lay down
to retire from office

Derived characters

啣, 𪩆, 御, 𨓴, 𦖐, 𧌋, 𨨶

References

KangXi: page 159, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2861
Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 314, character 3
Unihan data for U+5378

Chinese

trad.		卸
simp. ^#		卸
alternative forms		缷寫／写

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	ŋaʔ, ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 午 (“pestle”) + 止 (“foot; walk”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”).

Also phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sŋjaːs) : phonetic 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ) + semantic 止 (“foot; walk”) + semantic 卩 (“kneeling person”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sia
Min Nan (POJ): sià

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siè
  - Wade–Giles: hsieh⁴
  - Yale: syè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
  - Palladius: се (se)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: se³
  - Yale: se
  - Cantonese Pinyin: se³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sé³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sia
  - Hakka Romanization System: xia
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xia⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ɕi̯a⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sià
  - Tâi-lô: sià
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siax
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕia²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕia⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕia²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɕia¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕia²¹/

Middle Chinese: /sia^H/

Rime
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	司夜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sia^H/
Pan Wuyun	/sia^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sia^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sia^H/
Li Rong	/sia^H/
Wang Li	/sĭa^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯a^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	se³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*sŋjaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ sjæ^H ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
English	to unload
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	卸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13166
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蝑
Old Chinese	/*sŋjaːs/

Definitions

卸

to unload
to take; to remove
to release; to shirk; to resign; to retire (from office)

Compounds

交卸
倒戈卸甲
卸下
卸任 (xièrèn)
卸包袱
卸甲
卸甲坪 (Xièjiǎpíng)
卸甲店 (Xièjiǎdiàn)
卸肩
卸除 (xièchú)

拆卸 (chāixiè)
推卸 (tuīxiè)
解衣卸甲
霸王卸甲
丟盔卸甲／丢盔卸甲
傾卸卡車／倾卸卡车
傾卸機／倾卸机
卸妝／卸妆 (xièzhuāng)
卸擔子／卸担子 (xièdànzi)
卸磨殺驢／卸磨杀驴 (xièmòshālǘ)

卸臉／卸脸 (xièliǎn)
卸貨／卸货 (xièhuò)
卸責／卸责 (xièzé)
卸頂／卸顶
卸頭／卸头
大卸八塊／大卸八块
拋戈卸甲／抛戈卸甲
脫卸／脱卸
裝卸／装卸 (zhuāngxiè)

References

“Entry #3620”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

卸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

wholesale
to grate, grated

Readings

Go-on: しゃ (sha)
Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
Kun: おろし (oroshi, 卸, Jōyō); おろす (orosu, 卸す, Jōyō)

Compounds

卸(おろし)売(うり) (oroshiuri, “wholesale”)
- 卸(おろし)売(う)り (oroshiuri, Alternative form of the above.)
卸(おろ)し金(がね) (oroshigane, “grater”)
大(だい)名(みょう)卸(おろ)し (daimyō-oroshi, “filleting a fish into three”)
棚(たな)卸(おろ)し (tanaoroshi, “inventory count”)

Korean

Hanja

卸 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卸: Hán Việt readings: tá[1][2]
卸: Nôm readings: tá[3], xả[3]

Nôm form of xả (“discharge, remove”).

References

Trần (1999).
Thiều Chửu (1942).
Trần (2004).

[tvctdhv-1] Trần (1999).

[tchvtd-2] Thiều Chửu (1942).

[gdhn-3] Trần (2004).