莝

莝

莝 U+839D, 莝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-839D ← 莜 [U+839C] CJK Unified Ideographs 莞 → [U+839E]

Translingual

Han character

莝 (radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿人人土 (TOOG) or X廿人人土 (XTOOG), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱艹坐)

1. to chop straw fine for animals

References

• KangXi: page 1034, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31062
• Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3222, character 3
• Unihan data for U+839D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		莝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (坐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
脞	*sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳	*ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	*sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	*zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuò (cuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): co³, zo⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: ts'o⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuoh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuò
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰwɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: co³, zo⁶
    • Yale: cho, joh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tso³, dzo⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: co³, zo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔː³³/, /t͡sɔː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuɑ^H/▼

Rime
Character	莝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	麤卧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwaH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuò

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莝
Reading #	1/1
No.	18058
Phonetic component	坐
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰoːls/

Definitions

莝

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Japanese

Kanji

莝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さ (sa)
• Kun: きりわら (kiriwara)

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Korean

Hanja

莝 • (jwa) (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune–Reischauer chwa, Yale cwa)

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