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嗟

嗟

嗟 U+55DF, 嗟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DF
← 嗞
[U+55DE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嗠 →
[U+55E0]

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 嗟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (左) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
左 *ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls
佐 *ʔsaːls
袏 *ʔslaːls
蹉 *sʰlaːl
瑳 *sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ
搓 *sʰlaːl
磋 *sʰlaːl
溠 *sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls
傞 *sʰlaːl, *slaːl
醝 *zlaːl
瘥 *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls
鹺 *zlaːl
嵯 *zlaːl, *sʰral
嵳 *zlaːl
蒫 *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl
艖 *zlaːl, *sʰraːl
齹 *zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral
縒 *slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ
褨 *slaːlʔ
嗟 *ʔsljal
差 *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral
鎈 *sʰraːl
槎 *zraːl, *zraːlʔ
髊 *zlals

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 嗟
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕyə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiə²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕia²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕia²⁴/
/t͡ɕi²⁴/ 新
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 嗟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 麻 (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 子邪切
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 嗟
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 嗟
Reading # 1/1
No. 18026
Phonetic
component		 左
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 嗟
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsljal/

Definitions

嗟

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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

嗟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

The kanji is ateji (当て字).

Interjection

嗟 ‎(hiragana ああ, katakana アー, romaji ā)

  1. Alternative form of アー

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗟 (ta, xơi)

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References

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