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寫

寫

See also: 写 and 冩

Translingual

Han character

寫 (radical 40 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹X火 (JHXF), four-corner 30327, composition ⿱宀舄)

References

  • KangXi: page 292, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7320
  • Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 953, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5BEB

Chinese

trad. 寫
simp. 写

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (舄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寫 *sjaːʔ
瀉 *sjaːʔ, *sjaːɡs
舄 *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
獡 *hjaɡ
潟 *sjaːɡ
磶 *sjaːɡ
蕮 *sjaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sjaːʔ) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 舄 ‎(OC *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 寫
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɛ²¹⁴/
Harbin /ɕiɛ²¹³/
Tianjin /ɕie¹³/
Jinan /ɕiə⁵⁵/
Qingdao /siə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /siɛ⁵³/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ⁵³/
Xining /ɕi⁵³/
Yinchuan /ɕie⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕiə⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ɕiɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕie⁴²/
Chengdu /ɕie⁵³/
Guiyang /ɕie⁴²/
Kunming /ɕiɛ⁵³/
Nanjing /sie²¹²/
Hefei /ɕi²⁴/
/se²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕie⁵³/
Pingyao /ɕie̞⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕie⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕia³⁵/
Suzhou /siɑ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ɕi⁵³/
Wenzhou /sei³⁵/
Hui Shexian /se³⁵/
/ɕye³⁵/
Tunxi /siɛ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /sie⁴¹/
/sia⁴¹/
Xiangtan /siɒ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɑ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /sia³¹/
Taoyuan /siɑ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɛ³⁵/
Nanning /ɬɛ³⁵/
Hong Kong /sɛ³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sia⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sia³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sia²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sia⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tia²¹³/
Rime
Character 寫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 麻 (100)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 悉姐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siaX/
Li
Rong		 /siaX/
Wang
Li		 /sĭaX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯aX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiě
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寫 寫
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiě xiě
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjæX › ‹ sjæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-qʰAʔ/ /*s-qʰAʔ/
English depict drain off

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 寫
Reading # 1/1
No. 13430
Phonetic
component		 舄
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 寫
Old
Chinese		 /*sjaːʔ/

Verb

寫

  1. to write, to compose
    我給媽媽寫了一封信。 [MSC, trad.]
    我给妈妈写了一封信。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ gěi māma xiě le yī fēng xìn. [Pinyin]
    I wrote a letter to my mother.
  2. to draw, to sketch

Japanese

Kanji

寫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 写)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

寫 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寫 (tả, giã)

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