咧

咧	U+54A7, 咧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A7

← 咦
[U+54A6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咨 →
[U+54A8]

Translingual

Han character

咧 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口一弓弓 (RMNN), four-corner 6200₀, composition ⿰口列)

stretched mouth, grimace, grin

References

KangXi: page 186, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3536
Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 31
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 613, character 16
Unihan data for U+54A7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 列 (OC *red).

Etymology 1

trad.		咧
simp. ^#		咧

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liē, lié (lie¹, lie²)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝ, ㄌㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶, le², le¹, le⁴
Min Nan (POJ): lia̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liē
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lie
  - Wade–Giles: lieh¹
  - Yale: lyē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhie
  - Palladius: ле (le)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ljɛ⁵⁵/
- (Beijing dialect)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lié
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lié
  - Wade–Giles: lieh²
  - Yale: lyé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lie
  - Palladius: ле (le)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ljɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lit⁶, le², le¹, le⁴
  - Yale: liht, lé, lē, lèh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lit⁹, le², le¹, le⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lid⁶, lé², lé¹, lé⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːt̚²/, /lɛː³⁵/, /lɛː⁵⁵/, /lɛː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍t
  - Tâi-lô: lia̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liat
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛt̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛt̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛt̚⁴/

Definitions

咧

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Compounds

咧咧 (liēlie)
咧子
咧熊

大大咧咧 (dàdaliēliē)
白不呲咧 (báibucīliē)
乾巴疵咧／干巴疵咧

罵罵咧咧／骂骂咧咧 (màmaliēliē)
醉咧咧兒／醉咧咧儿

Etymology 2

trad.		咧
simp. ^#		咧

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liě (lie³)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liě
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liě
  - Wade–Giles: lieh³
  - Yale: lyě
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liee
  - Palladius: ле (le)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ljɛ²¹⁴/

Definitions

咧

to draw back the corners of one's mouth

Compounds

咧嘴 (liězuǐ)

齜牙咧嘴／龇牙咧嘴

Etymology 3

trad.		咧
simp. ^#		咧

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lie, liē (lie⁵, lie¹)
(Zhuyin): ˙ㄌㄧㄝ, ㄌㄧㄝ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lie
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄌㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lie̊
  - Wade–Giles: lieh⁵
  - Yale: lye
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .lie
  - Palladius: ле (le)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ljɛ/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liē
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lie
  - Wade–Giles: lieh¹
  - Yale: lyē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhie
  - Palladius: ле (le)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ljɛ⁵⁵/

Definitions

咧

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Etymology 4

trad.		咧
simp. ^#		咧
alternative forms		在塊／块的啲

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): le̍h / --leh / lér / teh / leh / lé

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍h
  - Tâi-lô: le̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leh
  - IPA (Xiamen): /leʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /leʔ⁴³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --leh
  - Tâi-lô: --leh
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lér
  - Tâi-lô: lér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teh
  - Tâi-lô: teh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: deq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Singapore): /teʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: leh
  - Tâi-lô: leh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: leq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /leʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lé
  - Tâi-lô: lé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lea
  - IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /le⁵⁵⁴/

Definitions

咧

(Min Nan) in the process of; currently
我咧食飯。／我咧食饭。 [Taiwanese Hokkien] ― Góa teh chia̍h-pn̄g. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― I'm eating.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 正在 (“in the process of; currently”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正在, 刻正
Mandarin	Beijing	正在, 在
	Taiwan	正在, 在
	Guilin	在
	Malaysia	正在, 在
	Singapore	正在, 在
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處
	Hong Kong	喺度, 喺處, 響度, 響處
	Singapore (Guangfu)	喺度
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	當, 在該, 當在
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	當, 在該
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	當, 在該
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	當, 在該
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	當, 在該
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	正在, 在遐
Min Dong	Fuzhou	著𡅏, 𡅏
	Fuqing	著𡅏
	Singapore (Fuqing)	著𡅏
Min Nan	Xiamen	佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧
	Quanzhou	佇咧, 咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 拄佇咧
	Zhangzhou	咧, 當咧, 拄咧, 當時
	Tainan	佇咧, 咧, 當咧
	Penang (Hokkien)	佇
	Singapore (Hokkien)	佇, 佇咧
	Manila (Hokkien)	佇咧, 咧
	Shantou	在
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	在
	Singapore (Teochew)	在
Wu	Shanghai	辣, 辣辣, 辣海
	Ningbo	來, 來的, 來該, 來當, 來東, 來勒
	Wenzhou	是, 是搭

Compounds

咧欲
拄咧

佇咧／伫咧
拄佇咧／拄伫咧

當咧／当咧

Etymology 5

trad.		咧
simp. ^#		咧

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): --leh / --leeh / --le

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --leh
  - Tâi-lô: --leh
- (Hokkien: Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --leeh
  - Tâi-lô: --leeh
- (Hokkien: Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --le
  - Tâi-lô: --le

Definitions

咧

Sentence-final particle signalling emphasis of the preceding words.
Sentence-final interrogative particle used to express doubt.
你好無？我真好。你咧？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
你好无？我真好。你咧？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
Lí hó--bô? Góa chin hó. Lí--leh? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
How are you? I'm well. How about you?

Descendants

→ English: leh

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00314
“咧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
“Query for 咧”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

咧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): れつ (retsu); れち (rechi)

Korean

Hanja

咧 • (ryeol) (hangeul 렬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咧: Hán Nôm readings: lác, sẹt, liệt, sèn, xẹt

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References

Nom Foundation