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夾

夾

See also: 夹 and 㚒

Translingual

Han character

夾 (radical 37 大+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 大人人 (KOO), four-corner 40038, composition ⿻大从)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 250, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5867
  • Dae Jaweon: page 509, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 529, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+593E

Chinese

trad. 夾
simp. 夹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夾
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (夾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瘞 *qrebs
瘱 *qeːbs
脥 *kʰemʔ
浹 *skaːb, *skeːb
挾 *skaːb, *ɡeːb
夾 *kreːb
郟 *kreːb
筴 *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
裌 *kreːb
鵊 *kreːb
狹 *ɡreːb
峽 *ɡreːb
硤 *ɡreːb
陜 *ɡreːb
陿 *ɡreːb
翜 *sraːb, *srɯːb
梜 *kraːb, *keːb
頰 *keːb
莢 *keːb
鋏 *keːb
蛺 *keːb
唊 *keːb
悏 *kʰeːb
匧 *kʰeːb
愜 *kʰeːb
篋 *kʰeːb
俠 *ɡeːb
綊 *ɡeːb

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 大 + 人 + 人.

To hold. (one man holding two men)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 夾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 洽 (152)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古洽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨp̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɐp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jia
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 夾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛp ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤ<r>ep/
English press between

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 夾
Reading # 1/1
No. 5891
Phonetic
component		 夾
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 夾
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːb/

Definitions

夾

  1. to be wedged or inserted between
  2. to pick up
  3. clip; holder

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

夾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

夾 • ‎(hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune-Reischauer hyŏp)

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Vietnamese

Han character

夾 (giáp, xáp, ghép, kép)

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