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嘢
嘢
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Translingual
Han character
嘢 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口田土弓 (RWGN), composition ⿰口野)
References
- KangXi: not present, would follow page 206, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 676, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5622
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
嘢 | |
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| alt. forms | 野 | |
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 + phonetic 野.
Etymology
Possibly from 也 (MC jiaX, “affirmation particle”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˇ
- Wade-Giles: yeh3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiee
- IPA (key): /i̯ɛ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: je5
- Yale: yéh
- Cantonese Pinyin: je5
- IPA (key): /jɛː¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Definitions
嘢 (Cantonese)
- thing; matter (Classifier: 樣／样 c)
- stuff; goods; article (Classifier: 樣／样 c)
- (derogatory) guy; fellow; devil
- Classifier for occurrences of events.
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 東西 (“thing, object”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 物 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 東西 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 東西 |
| Jinan | 東西 | |
| Xi'an | 東西 | |
| Wuhan | 東西、家伙 | |
| Chengdu | 東西 | |
| Yangzhou | 東子、東西 | |
| Hefei | 東西 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 嘢 |
| Hong Kong | 嘢 | |
| Taishan | 嘢 | |
| Yangjiang | 嘢 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 東西 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 東西 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 東西 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 東西 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 東西 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 東西 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 東西 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 物件 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 東西 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 物事 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 乇 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 物件 |
| Xiamen | 物件、物 | |
| Zhangzhou | 物件 | |
| Taipei | 物件 | |
| Kaohsiung | 物仔、物件 | |
| Tainan | 物仔、物件 | |
| Taichung | 物件 | |
| Yilan | 物仔、物件 | |
| Lukang | 物、物件 | |
| Sanxia | 物件 | |
| Kinmen | 物、物件 | |
| Magong | 物、物件 | |
| Hsinchu | 物件 | |
| Chaozhou | 物件、物 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 物事 |
| Suzhou | 物事 | |
| Wenzhou | 物事、物色、名堂 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 東西、家伙 |
| Shuangfeng | 東西、家伙 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 嘢
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