楔

楔	U+6954, 楔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6954

← 楓
[U+6953]

CJK Unified Ideographs

楕 →
[U+6955]

Translingual

Han character

楔 (radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木手竹大 (DQHK), four-corner 4793₄, composition ⿰木契)

wedge
gatepost
foreword

References

KangXi: page 539, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15131
Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1242, character 7
Unihan data for U+6954

Chinese

simp. and trad.		楔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
夆	pʰoŋ, boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯	*kreːds
瘛	kʰjeds, ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢	*ɡjeds
契	kʰeːds, kʰeːd, kʰeːd, kʰɯd
栔	*kʰeːds
禊	*ɡeːds
稧	*ɡeːds
楔	kreːd, sqʰeːd
葜	*kʰreːd
猰	qreːd, kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫	*qreːd
揳	*sqʰeːd
偰	*sqʰeːd
潔	*keːd
絜	keːd, ɡeːd
鍥	keːd, kʰeːd
挈	*kʰeːd
蛪	*kʰeːd
齧	*ŋeːd
褉	*qʰeːd
喫	*ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiē (xie¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sit³
Min Nan (POJ): siat / soeh / seh

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiē
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝ
  - Wade–Giles: hsieh¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shie
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sit³
  - Yale: sit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: xid³
  - IPA ^(key): /siːt̚³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siat
  - Tâi-lô: siat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siad
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕiɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɛt̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soeh
  - Tâi-lô: sueh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soeq
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sueʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /sueʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seh
  - Tâi-lô: seh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /seʔ³²/

Note:

siat - literary;
soeh/seh - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: /kˠɛt̚/, /set̚/▼

Rime
Character	楔	楔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	古黠切	先結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛt̚/	/set̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæt̚/	/set̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kæt̚/	/sɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəɨt̚/	/sɛt̚/
Li Rong	/kɛt̚/	/set̚/
Wang Li	/kæt̚/	/siet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kat̚/	/siet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jia	xie

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qˤet/
(Zhengzhang): /*kreːd/, /*sqʰeːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	楔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiē
Middle Chinese	‹ set ›
Old Chinese	/*s.qˁet/
English	wedge put in teeth of corpse
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	楔	楔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6498	6504
Phonetic component	丯	丯
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	戛	屑
Old Chinese	/*kreːd/	/*sqʰeːd/

Definitions

楔

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Japanese

Kanji

楔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: せち (sechi); けち (kechi)
Kan-on: せつ (setsu); けつ (ketsu)
Kun: くさび (kusabi, 楔); ほうだて (hōdate, 楔)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
楔
くさび Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) くさび [kùsábí] (Heiban – [0])
- IPA^(key): [kɯ̟̊ᵝsa̠bʲi]

Noun

楔 (hiragana くさび, rōmaji kusabi)

a wedge (simple machine)

Korean

Hanja

楔 (eum 설 (seol))

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Vietnamese

Han character

楔: Hán Nôm readings: khế

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References

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