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U+55DF, 嗟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DF

[U+55DE]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+55E0]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口廿手一 (RTQM), four-corner 68011, composition)

  1. sigh, alas

References

  • KangXi: page 203, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4102
  • Dae Jaweon: page 426, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 661, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+55DF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls
*ʔsaːls
*ʔslaːls
*sʰlaːl
*sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ
*sʰlaːl
*sʰlaːl
*sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls
*sʰlaːl, *slaːl
*zlaːl
*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls
*zlaːl
*zlaːl, *sʰral
*zlaːl
*zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl
*zlaːl, *sʰraːl
*zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral
*slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ
*slaːlʔ
*ʔsljal
*sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral
*sʰraːl
*zraːl, *zraːlʔ
*zlals

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕia²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕia²⁴/
/t͡ɕi²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕia³¹/
Ürümqi
Wuhan /t͡ɕie⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕia⁵⁵/
Guiyang
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡siɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕie̞³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sei³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕye³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡sie³³/
/t͡sia³³/
Xiangtan /t͡siɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /t͡sia⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sɛ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sɛ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sɛ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sia⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sia⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sia⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sa³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡se²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sia/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sia/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sia/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sia/
Li
Rong
/t͡sia/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯a/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiē
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiē
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjæ ›
Old
Chinese
/*tsAj/
English sigh; alas!

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 # 1/1
No. 18026
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsljal/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 于嗟
  • 傷嗟伤嗟
  • 叱嗟
  • 叱嗟風雲叱嗟风云
  • 吁嗟
  • 咄嗟
  • 咄嗟便辦咄嗟便办
  • 咄嗟可辦咄嗟可办
  • 咄嗟而辦咄嗟而办
  • 咨嗟
  • 嗟乎
  • 嗟來之食嗟来之食
  • 嗟來食嗟来食
  • 嗟吁
  • 嗟呀
  • 嗟嗟
  • 嗟嘆嗟叹
  • 嗟夫
  • 嗟怨 (jiēyuàn)
  • 嗟悔
  • 嗟悼
  • 嗟憤嗟愤
  • 嗟異嗟异
  • 嗟訝嗟讶
  • 嗟重
  • 拍膝嗟歎拍膝嗟叹
  • 歎嗟叹嗟
  • 歎老嗟卑叹老嗟卑
  • 猗嗟
  • 猝嗟
  • 自嗟自嘆自嗟自叹
  • 興嗟兴嗟

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

The kanji is ateji (当て字).

Interjection

(hiragana ああ, katakana アー, romaji ā)

  1. Alternative form of アー

Korean

Hanja

(cha) (hangeul , revised cha, McCune-Reischauer ch'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ta, xơi)

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References