喺

喺

喺 U+55BA, 喺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BA ← 喹 [U+55B9] CJK Unified Ideographs 喻 → [U+55BB]

Translingual

Han character

喺 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人竹火 (ROHF), composition ⿰口係)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 657, character 2
• Unihan data for U+55BA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喺
variant forms		o係 Internet 匸 𫪈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (系) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
係	*keːɡs
系	*ɡeːɡs

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hai²
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hoi¹ / hoi⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hai²
    • Yale: hái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hei²
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐi̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hoi¹ / hoi⁴
    • IPA: /hoɪ⁴⁴/, /hoɪ⁵³/

Definitions

喺

(Cantonese)

1. be ...-ing; in the middle of doing something (indicating an action in progress)
2. to exist; to be (located)

   我而家喺香港。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   Ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ hai² hoeng¹ gong². [Jyutping]

   I am in Hong Kong now.

3. (located) in; at; within

   喺架車入便 / 喺架车入便 [Cantonese]  ―  hai² gaa³ ce¹ jap⁶ bin⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  inside the car

4. (temporal) in

   喺2012 [Cantonese]  ―  hai² 2012 [Jyutping]  ―  in 2012

5. within; in

   喺英文度 [Cantonese]  ―  hai² jing¹ man⁴ dou⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  within English

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		於
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		在
Mandarin	Beijing	在, 挨, 跟
	Taiwan	在
	Jinan	在, 從
	Xi'an	在
	Wuhan	在
	Chengdu	在
	Yangzhou	在
	Hefei	在
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	在
Cantonese	Guangzhou	喺, 響
	Hong Kong	喺, 響
	Foshan	喺, 響
	Shunde	喺
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	在
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	響, 揀
	Doumen	揀
	Taishan	到, 響
	Kaiping (Chikan)	到
	Dongguan	響, 在, 喺
	Yangjiang	在
Gan	Nanchang	在
Hakka	Meixian	喺
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	在
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	在
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	在
	Dongshi (Dabu)	在
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	在
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	在
Jin	Taiyuan	在
Min Bei	Jian'ou	到
Min Dong	Fuzhou	著, 在, 洽
	Fuqing	著, 洽
Min Nan	Xiamen	佇, 踮
	Quanzhou	佇
	Zhangzhou	佇
	Taipei	佇, 踮 mT
	Kaohsiung	佇
	Tainan	佇
	Taichung	佇
	Hsinchu	佇
	Lukang	佇
	Sanxia	佇
	Yilan	佇
	Kinmen	佇
	Magong	佇
	Penang	佇
	Philippines (Manila)	佇
	Chaozhou	在
	Shantou	在
Wu	Shanghai	辣, 辣辣, 辣海
	Suzhou	勒
	Wenzhou	是
Xiang	Changsha	在
	Shuangfeng	在
Note	mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with 係／系 (hai6, “to be”).
• While Mandarin 在 (zài) can be used by itself as a verb (他現在不在 "he is not here right now"), Cantonese must use 喺度 (佢而家唔喺度 "he is not here right now").

Compounds

喺度

喺處／喺处