歃

歃

歃 U+6B43, 歃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B43 ← 歂 [U+6B42] CJK Unified Ideographs 歄 → [U+6B44]

Translingual

Han character

歃 (radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X弓人 (HXNO) or 一X弓 (MXN), four-corner 2778₂, composition ⿰臿欠)

1. smear one's mouth with blood of a victim when taking an oath

References

• KangXi: page 570, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16131
• Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2146, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6B43

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		歃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
偛	*ʔsreːb
插	*sʰreːb
鍤	*sʰreːb, *r̥ʰeb
臿	*sʰreːb
喢	*sʰreːb, *sreːb, *sreb, *l̥ʰjeb
牐	*zreːb
歃	*sreːb, *sreb
敮	*hreːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shà, xiá (sha⁴, xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚˋ, ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saap³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shà
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚˋ
    • Wade–Giles: sha⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shah
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saap³
    • Yale: saap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: sab³
    • IPA ^(key): /säːp̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʃˠiᴇp̚/, /ʃˠɛp̚/▼

Rime
Character	歃	歃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	葉 (156)	洽 (152)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	II
Fanqie	山輒切	山洽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠiᴇp̚/	/ʃˠɛp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚiɛp̚/	/ʃᵚæp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiæp̚/	/ʃɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂjiap̚/	/ʂəɨp̚/
Li Rong	/ʃjɛp̚/	/ʃɐp̚/
Wang Li	/ʃĭɛp̚/	/ʃɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi̯ɛp̚/	/ʂăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	she	sha

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s](ˤ)r[o]p/, /*[s]r[o]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːb/, /*sreb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歃	歃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shà	shà
Middle Chinese	‹ srɛp ›	‹ srjep ›
Old Chinese	/*[s](ˁ)r[o]p/	/*[s]r[o]p/
English	smear mouth with victim"s blood	smear mouth with blood
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	歃	歃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1196	1200
Phonetic component	臿	臿
Rime group	盍	盍
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	霎	萐
Old Chinese	/*sreːb/	/*sreb/

Definitions

歃

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Japanese

Kanji

歃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to sip, slurp, suck

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō), しょう (shō), こう (kō)
• Kun: すする (susuru)

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Korean

Hanja

歃 • (sap) (hangeul 삽, revised sap, McCune–Reischauer sap, Yale sap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歃 (sáp, khảm)

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