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切

切

切 U+5207, 切
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5207
← 分
[U+5206] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刈 →
[U+5208]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

切 (radical 18 刀+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心尸竹 (PSH), four-corner 47720, composition ⿰七刀)

References

  • KangXi: page 136, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1858
  • Dae Jaweon: page 307, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 320, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5207

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 切

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (七) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
切 *sn̥ʰiːds, *sn̥ʰiːd
砌 *sʰiːds
沏 *sʰiːd
七 *sn̥ʰid
柒 *sn̥ʰid
叱 *n̥ʰjid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sn̥ʰiːds, *sn̥ʰiːd) : phonetic 七 ‎(OC *sn̥ʰid) + semantic 刀.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 切 切
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 七計切 千結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰeiH/ /t͡sʰet̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰeiH/ /t͡sʰet̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɛiH/ /t͡sʰɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰɛjH/ /t͡sʰɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰeiH/ /t͡sʰet̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰieiH/ /t͡sʰiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰieiH/ /t͡sʰiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qì qie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 切
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˤi[t]/
English cut; urgent

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 切 切
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9906 9908
Phonetic
component		 七 七
Rime
group		 至 質
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 砌
Old
Chinese		 /*sn̥ʰiːds/ /*sn̥ʰiːd/

Definitions

切

  1. to cut; to slice; to carve; to mince with a knife
  2. to cut off; to disconnect
  3. (mathematics) tangent
    正切  ―  zhèngqiē  ―  tangent
    餘切 / 余切  ―  yúqiē  ―  cotangent

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

切

  1. to be close to
  2. to bite tightly; to clench
  3. to correspond to; to match
  4. (TCM) to feel the pulse
  5. eager; ardent
  6. urgent; pressing
  7. all; entire
  8. must; by all means
  9. main point
  10. (phonetics) Short for 反切 (fǎnqiè, “fanqie”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

切

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. cut

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

切 • ‎(jeol, che)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 절, 체 (revised: jeol, che, McCune-Reischauer: chŏl, ch'e)
  • Name (hangeul): 끊을 절, 온통 체()
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Vietnamese

Han character

切 (thiết, siết, thiếc, thướt)

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