遏

遏

遏 U+904F, 遏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-904F ← 過 [U+904E] CJK Unified Ideographs 遐 → [U+9050]

Translingual

Han character

遏 (radical 162, 辵+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日心女 (YAPV), four-corner 3630₂, composition ⿺辶曷)

References

• KangXi: page 1261, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39004
• Dae Jaweon: page 1754, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3858, character 2
• Unihan data for U+904F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		遏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遏
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaːd) : semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³
• Min Nan (POJ): at

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: aat³
    • Yale: aat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ad³
    • IPA ^(key): /äːt̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: at
    • Tâi-lô: at
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /at̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔɑt̚/▼

Rime
Character	遏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏葛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔat̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔat ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁat/
English	repress; cease
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	遏
Reading #	1/1
No.	5037
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遏
Old Chinese	/*qaːd/

Definitions

遏

1. to stop; to suppress; to curb; to check
2. a bar (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (Min Nan) to snap something off; to break something

   遏樹枝 / 遏树枝 [Min Nan]  ―  at chhiū-ki [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to break a branch

Compounds

夭遏 封胡遏末 怒不可遏 (nùbùkě'è) 抑遏 止遏 沮遏 禁遏

褒賢遏惡／褒贤遏恶 遏制 (èzhì) 遏密 遏惡揚善／遏恶扬善 遏抑 遏止 (èzhǐ) 遏漸防萌／遏渐防萌

遏藍菜／遏蓝菜 遏阻 遏雲／遏云 遏雲社／遏云社 防芽遏萌 阻遏 響遏行雲／响遏行云

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Japanese

Kanji

遏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): あつ (atsu)
• Kun: とどめる (todomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

遏 • (al) (hangeul 알, revised al, McCune–Reischauer al, Yale al)

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