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U+52AB, 劫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52AB

[U+52AA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+52AC]
See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 19 +5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS) or X土戈大尸 (XGIKS), four-corner 47720, composition)

  1. take by force, coerce
  2. disaster

References

  • KangXi: page 146, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2316
  • Dae Jaweon: page 331, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 367, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+52AB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰal
*kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab
*kʰɯ, *kʰɯ, *kʰab
*kaʔ, *kʰaʔ
*kʰa
*kʰa
*kʰa
*kʰa, *kʰas, *kʰab
*kʰa, *kʰl'aːb
*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
*kʰas
*kaːb, *kab
*kab, *kab
*kab
*kab, *kab
*kʰab

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰie³¹/
/t͡ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕieʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiap̚¹/
Taoyuan /kiɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kip̚³/
Nanning /kip̚³³/
Hong Kong /kip̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiap̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kiɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kiap̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kiap̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (147)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨap̚/
Li
Rong
/kiap̚/
Wang
Li
/kĭɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɐp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jié
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjæp ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)ap/
English rob

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6438 10694
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kab/ /*kab/
Notes kalpa kalpa

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 乘火打劫
  • 偷營劫寨偷营劫寨
  • 剽劫
  • 劫制
  • 劫劫
  • 劫匪
  • 劫囚
  • 劫奪劫夺
  • 劫婚
  • 劫富濟貧劫富济贫
  • 劫寨 (jiézhài)
  • 劫後餘燼劫后余烬
  • 劫後餘生劫后余生
  • 劫持 (jiéchí)
  • 劫掠 (jiélüè)
  • 劫數劫数
  • 劫機劫机 (jiéjī)
  • 劫殺劫杀
  • 劫法場劫法场
  • 劫灰
  • 劫營劫营 (jiéyíng)
  • 劫牢
  • 劫獄劫狱
  • 劫略
  • 劫盜劫盗
  • 劫盟
  • 劫財劫财
  • 劫運劫运
  • 劫難劫难 (jiénàn)
  • 劫餘劫余
  • 在劫難逃在劫难逃
  • 塵劫尘劫
  • 大劫
  • 小劫
  • 巴劫
  • 巴巴劫劫
  • 忙劫
  • 忙劫劫
  • 忙忙劫劫
  • 打劫 (dǎjié)
  • 打家劫盜打家劫盗
  • 打家劫舍
  • 換劫换劫
  • 搜劫
  • 搶劫抢劫 (qiǎngjié)
  • 攔劫拦劫
  • 昆池劫灰
  • 桃花劫
  • 歷劫历劫
  • 歷劫歸來历劫归来
  • 永劫
  • 波波劫劫
  • 洗劫 (xǐjié)
  • 浩劫
  • 火劫
  • 焚劫
  • 生關死劫生关死劫
  • 盜劫盗劫
  • 空劫
  • 萬劫万劫 (wànjié)
  • 萬劫不復万劫不复
  • 行劫
  • 要劫
  • 趁哄打劫
  • 趁火打劫
  • 趁火搶劫趁火抢劫
  • 路劫
  • 遭劫
  • 邀劫

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Kanji in this term
こう
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Noun

(hiragana こう, romaji , historical hiragana こふ)

  1. (Buddhism) kalpa

Korean

Hanja

(geop) (hangeul , revised geop, McCune-Reischauer kŏp)

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