褐

褐

褐 U+8910, 褐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8910 ← 褏 [U+890F] CJK Unified Ideographs 褑 → [U+8911]

褐 U+FA60, 褐 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA60 ← 著 [U+FA5F] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 視 → [U+FA61]

Translingual

Han character

褐 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+9 in Chinese, 衣+8 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 中日心女 (LAPV), four-corner 3622₇, composition ⿰衤曷 or ⿰衤⿱日匂)

References

• KangXi: page 1120, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34435
• Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3102, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8910
• Unihan data for U+FA60

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Chinese

trad.		褐
simp. #		褐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 褐
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hè, hé

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˋ, ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hot³, hot⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hod⁵
• Min Dong (BUC): hăk
• Min Nan (POJ): ha̍t
• Wu (Wiktionary): eq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hè
    • Wade–Giles: ho⁴
    • Yale: hè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heh
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hot³, hot⁶
    • Yale: hot, hoht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hot⁸, hot⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hod³, hod⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːt̚³/, /hɔːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hod⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /hɔt̚¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hăk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍t
    • Tâi-lô: ha̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hat̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: eq (T4)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /əʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑt̚/

Rime
Character	褐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	寒 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡葛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦat̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hot6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ˤat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	褐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hè
Middle Chinese	‹ hat ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ˁat/
English	coarse cloth
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	褐
Reading #	1/1
No.	5031
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	曷
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːd/

Definitions

褐

1. cloth made of coarse fiber
2. poor, dull
3. brown

Compounds

布褐 短褐 短褐不全 短褐不完 茶褐色 (cháhèsè) 被褐 裋褐 裘褐 褐土 褐夫

褐炭 褐煤 (hèméi) 褐色 (hèsè) 褐藻 褐衣疏食 褐袖 解褐 衣褐懷寶／衣褐怀宝 被褐懷寶／被褐怀宝 被褐懷玉／被褐怀玉

被褐懷珠／被褐怀珠 被褐懷金／被褐怀金 被褐藏輝／被褐藏辉 褐藻膠／褐藻胶 褐變／褐变 褐錳礦／褐锰矿 褐鐵礦／褐铁矿 褐飛蝨／褐飞虱 豎褐／竖褐 釋褐／释褐

References

• “褐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Shinjitai	褐
Kyūjitai [1]	褐 褐 or 褐+︀?
	褐󠄁 褐+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	褐󠄃 褐+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

褐

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 褐)

1. coarse, rough fabric, especially of wool
2. poor
3. brown

Readings

• Go-on: かち (kachi); がち (gachi)
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぬのこ (nunoko, 褐)

Compounds

• 褐(かっ)色(しょく) (kasshoku)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
褐
かつ Grade: S
kan’on

Alternative spelling
褐 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 褐 (MC ɦɑt̚).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) か​つ [káꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

褐(かつ) • (katsu) 

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Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
褐
かち Grade: S
goon

Alternative spelling
褐 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 褐 (MC ɦɑt̚).

Noun

褐(かち) • (kachi) 

1. (archaic) dark navy blue
2. coarse woolen fabric

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
褐
かちん Grade: S
irregular

Alternative spelling
褐 (kyūjitai)

Noun

褐(かちん) • (kachin) 

1. Synonym of 褐 (kachi)

References

1. “褐”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

褐 (eumhun 갈색 갈 (galsaek gal))

1. Hanja form^? of 갈 (“brown”).

褐 (eumhun 굵은 갈 (gulgeun gal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

褐: Hán Nôm readings: hạt

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