夨

夨

夨 U+5928, 夨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5928 ← 大 [U+5927] CJK Unified Ideographs 天 → [U+5929]

Translingual

Han character

夨 (radical 37, 大+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女大 (VK), composition ⿻ㄣ⿱一乀)

References

• KangXi: page 248, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5832
• Dae Jaweon: page 500, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5928

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		夨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夨
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - a man tilting his head.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zè (ze⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zak¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zè
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˋ
    • Wade–Giles: tsê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zak¹
    • Yale: jāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeg¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ʃɨk̚/, /let̚/▼

Rime
Character	夨	夨
Reading #	2/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	職 (134)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	阻力切	練結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɨk̚/	/let̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂɨk̚/	/let̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiek̚/	/lɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂik̚/	/lɛt̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiək̚/	/let̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭək̚/	/liet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯ək̚/	/liet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhe	liè

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]rək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrik ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]rək/
English	incline the head
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	夨
Reading #	1/1
No.	16609
Phonetic component	夨
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	稄
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯɡ/

Definitions

夨

1. ^† to tilt the head

Compounds

宜侯夨簋

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01927

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Japanese

Kanji

夨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku), しき (shiki), れつ (retsu), れち (rechi)
• Kun: かたむける (katamukeru)