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娑

娑

Translingual

Han character

娑 (radical 38 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水竹女 (EHV), four-corner 39404, composition ⿱沙女)

References

  • KangXi: page 262, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 528, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1054, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5A11

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 娑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (沙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
硰 *ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl
娑 *saːl, *saːlʔ
挱 *saːl, *sraːl
挲 *saːl
桫 *saːl
渻 *saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
沙 *sraːl, *sraːls
紗 *sraːl
砂 *sraːl
鯊 *sraːl
裟 *sraːl
桬 *sraːl
髿 *sraːl, *soːl
魦 *sraːl, *soːl
莎 *soːl
莏 *soːl

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 娑 娑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 歌 (94) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 素何切 蘇可切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sa/ /saX/
Li
Rong		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Wang
Li		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑ/ /sɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suō suǒ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 娑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 suō
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sa ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤa[j]/
English 婆娑 saunter, dance

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 娑 娑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11019 11024
Phonetic
component		 沙 沙
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 娑 縒
Old
Chinese		 /*saːl/ /*saːlʔ/

Definitions

娑

  1. dance, frolic (used in 婆娑)
  2. to lounge
  3. saunter

Japanese

Kanji

娑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

娑 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

娑 (sa)

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References

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