婕

See also: 媫

婕	U+5A55, 婕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A55

← 婔
[U+5A54]

CJK Unified Ideographs

婖 →
[U+5A56]

Translingual

Han character

婕 (radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女十中人 (VJLO), four-corner 4548₁, composition ⿰女疌)

References

KangXi: page 264, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6412
Dae Jaweon: page 531, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1057, character 5
Unihan data for U+5A55

Chinese

simp. and trad.		婕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疌) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
疀	*sʰreːb
萐	zreːb, sreːb, *sreb
箑	sreːb, sreb
啑	sraːb, tiːɡs
睫	*ʔseb
婕	*ʔseb
緁	*sʰeb
捷	*zeb
疌	*zeb
寁	ʔsuːmʔ, zeb
倢	*zeb
崨	*zeb
踕	*zeb
誱	*zeb
徢	*seːb
蜨	*seːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseb) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 疌 (OC *zeb).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jié (jie²)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³, zip³, zit⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jié
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
  - Wade–Giles: chieh²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zit³, zip³, zit⁶
  - Yale: jit, jip, jiht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸, dzip⁸, dzit⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: jid³, jib³, jid⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/, /t͡siːp̚³/, /t͡siːt̚²/

Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇp̚/▼

Rime
Character	婕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	葉 (155)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即葉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siap̚/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛp̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔseb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婕
Reading #	1/1
No.	6448
Phonetic component	疌
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	接
Old Chinese	/*ʔseb/

Definitions

婕

Used in 婕妤 (jiéyú).
Used in female personal names.

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jié (jie²)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jié
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
  - Wade–Giles: chieh²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/

Definitions

婕

^† beautiful

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qiè (qie⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄝˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄝˋ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'ieh⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chieh
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛ⁵¹/

Definitions

婕

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Japanese

Kanji

婕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

handsome

Readings

On (unclassified): しょう (shō)

Kun: みめよい (mimeyoi)

Korean

Hanja

婕 • (cheop) (hangeul 첩, revised cheop, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏp)

imperial concubine
beautiful

Vietnamese

Han character

婕 (tiệp)

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References

Nom Foundation