堐

堐

堐 U+5810, 堐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5810 ← 堏 [U+580F] CJK Unified Ideographs 堑 → [U+5811]

Translingual

Han character

堐 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土一土土 (GMGG), four-corner 4111₄, composition ⿰土厓)

Further reading

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 232, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 451, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5810

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		堐

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 厓 (OC *ŋreː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yá (ya²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yá
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yá
    • Wade–Giles: ya²
    • Yale: yá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ya
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: aai⁴
    • Yale: àaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯²¹/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

堐

1. Used in place names.

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 88