瑕

瑕	U+7455, 瑕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7455

← 瑔
[U+7454]

CJK Unified Ideographs

瑖 →
[U+7456]

Translingual

Han character

瑕 (radical 96, 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土口尸水 (MGRSE), four-corner 1714₇, composition ⿰王叚)

flaw in gem
fault, defect

References

KangXi: page 737, character 18

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21120

Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1128, character 14

Unihan data for U+7455

Chinese

simp. and trad.		瑕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瑕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (叚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
葭	*kraː
麚	*kraː
瘕	kraː, kraːʔ
豭	*kraː
貑	*kraː
猳	*kraː
犌	*kraː
假	kraːʔ, kraːs
嘏	*kraːʔ
婽	*kraːʔ
椵	*kraːʔ
叚	*kraːʔ
蝦	qʰraː, ɡraː
煆	qʰraː, qʰraːs
霞	*ɡraː
遐	*ɡraː
瑕	*ɡraː
鰕	*ɡraː
碬	*ɡraː
蕸	*ɡraː
赮	*ɡraː
鍜	*ɡraː
騢	*ɡraː
暇	*ɡraːs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiá (xia²)
(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haa⁴
Min Nan (POJ): hâ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiá
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
  - Wade–Giles: hsia²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: haa⁴
  - Yale: hàh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haa⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ha⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /häː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâ
  - Tâi-lô: hâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ha²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ha²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ha¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ha²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ha²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɦˠa/▼

Rime
Character	瑕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣa/
Wang Li	/ɣa/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤra/
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡraː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瑕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hæ ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁra/
English	flaw, blemish
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	瑕
Reading #	1/1
No.	5967
Phonetic component	叚
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遐
Old Chinese	/*ɡraː/
Notes	叚轉註字

Definitions

瑕

flaw; blemish

Compounds

吹毛取瑕
吹毛求瑕
尋瑕索瘢／寻瑕索瘢
抉瑕掩瑜
抉瑕擿釁／抉瑕擿衅
抵瑕蹈隙
指瑕
指瑕造隙
捐忿與瑕／捐忿与瑕
掩瑕藏疾
棄瑕取用／弃瑕取用
棄瑕錄用／弃瑕录用
洗垢匿瑕

滌瑕／涤瑕
滌瑕蕩垢／涤瑕荡垢
滌瑕蕩穢／涤瑕荡秽
滌穢蕩瑕／涤秽荡瑕
潔白無瑕／洁白无瑕
無瑕／无瑕 (wúxiá)
無瑕可擊／无瑕可击
瑕不掩瑜 (xiábùyǎnyú)
瑕玷
瑕瑜
瑕瑜互見／瑕瑜互见
瑕疵 (xiácī)
瑕謫／瑕谪

瑕釁／瑕衅
瑜不掩瑕
疵瑕
白玉微瑕
白玉有瑕
白玉無瑕／白玉无瑕
白璧之瑕
白璧微瑕 (báibì wēixiá)
白璧無瑕／白璧无瑕 (báibì wúxiá)
美玉無瑕／美玉无瑕
蕩瑕滌穢／荡瑕涤秽
赤瑕

Japanese

Kanji

瑕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

flaw, blemish

Readings

On (unclassified): か (ka)
Kun: きず (kizu, 瑕); なんぞ (nanzo, 瑕ぞ)

Korean

Hanja

瑕 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑕 (hà)

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