齕

齕

See also: 龁

齕 U+9F55, 齕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F55 ← 齔 [U+9F54] CJK Unified Ideographs 齖 → [U+9F56]

Translingual

Han character

齕 (Kangxi radical 211, 齒+3, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜山人弓 (YUON), four-corner 2871₇, composition ⿰齒乞)

1. gnaw, bite, nibble

References

• KangXi: page 1532, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48590
• Dae Jaweon: page 2070, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4789, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9F55

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Chinese

trad.		齕
simp.		龁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
乞	*kʰɯds, *kʰɯd
盵	*kʰɯds
齕	*ɡɯːd, *ɡuːd
紇	*ɡɯːd, *ɡuːd
籺	*ɡɯːd
圪	*ŋrɯd, *ŋɯd
訖	*kɯd
吃	*kɯd
扢	*kɯd, *kuːd, *ɡuːd
疙	*ŋɯd
屹	*ŋɯd
仡	*ŋɯd, *hŋɯd
迄	*hŋɯd
釳	*hŋɯd
忔	*hŋɯd
汔	*hŋɯd
矻	*kʰuːd
麧	*ɡuːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶, ngaat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • 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: hat⁶, ngaat⁶
    • Yale: haht, ngaaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹, ngaat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶, ngad⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/, /ŋaːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦət̚/, /ɦet̚/

Rime
Character	齕	齕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	痕 (54)	先 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	下没切	胡結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦət̚/	/ɦet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦət̚/	/ɦet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣət̚/	/ɣɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦət̚/	/ɦɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ɣət̚/	/ɣet̚/
Wang Li	/ɣət̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣət̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hat6	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-[q]ˤət/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯːd/, /*ɡuːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	齕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé
Middle Chinese	‹ hot ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[q]ˁət/
English	bite (v.)
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	齕	齕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10075	10097
Phonetic component	乞	乞
Rime group	物	物
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	纈	麧
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯːd/	/*ɡuːd/

Definitions

齕

1. (literary) to bite; to gnaw

Compounds

齕吞／龁吞 (hétūn)

齮齕／𬺈龁 (yǐhé)

References

• “齕”, 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

Kanji

齕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. gnaw
2. bite
3. nibble

Readings

• On (unclassified): こつ (kotsu); ごち (gochi); けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: かむ (kamu)

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Korean

Hanja

齕 (eum 흘 (heul))

1. bite, gnaw
2. chew