唦

唦

唦 U+5526, 唦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5526 ← 唥 [U+5525] CJK Unified Ideographs 唧 → [U+5527]

Translingual

Han character

唦 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口水火竹 (REFH), four-corner 6902₀, composition ⿰口沙)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 193, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 634, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5526

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		唦

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 沙 (OC *sraːl, *sraːls)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shā (sha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shā
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sha
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹
    • Yale: shā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sha
    • Palladius: ша (ša)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saa¹
    • Yale: sā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saː⁵⁵/

Definitions

唦

1. Sentence-final particle, similar to 啊.

   • 出麼事了唦？ [MSC, trad.]
     出么事了唦？ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1990, 池莉 (Chi Li), 冷也好熱也好活著就好 (Cold or Hot, It's Good to Live)

     Chū me shì le shā? [Pinyin]

     What happened?

2. (onomatopoeia) the sound of rustling