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接

接

Translingual

Han character

接 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜廿女 (QYTV), four-corner 50044, composition ⿰扌妾)

References

  • KangXi: page 439, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12280
  • Dae Jaweon: page 789, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1905, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+63A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 接

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
霎 *sreːb, *sreb
翣 *sraːb
帹 *sraːb
接 *ʔseb
椄 *ʔseb
菨 *ʔseb
鯜 *ʔseb, *sʰeb
妾 *sʰeb
淁 *sʰeb
踥 *sʰeb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseb) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 妾 ‎(OC *sʰeb) – to receive (in the hand).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 接
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕiə²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡siə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡siɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕie¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕie³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sieʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡siəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡seʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡siɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sie²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡siap̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡siɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sip̚³/
Nanning /t͡sip̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sip̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡siap̚³²/
/t͡siʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡siɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡siɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siap̚²/
/t͡siʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡siap̚⁵/
/t͡si⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 接
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 葉 (155)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即葉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siap̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛp̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 接
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjep ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts][a]p/
English connect

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 接
Reading # 1/1
No. 10463
Phonetic
component		 妾
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 接
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔseb/

Definitions

接

  1. to receive; to catch
    接球  ―  jiēqiú  ―  to catch a ball
  2. to continue
  3. to connect
    接口  ―  jiēkǒu  ―  (computing) interface
  4. to pick up the phone
  5. to pick up a person
    我現在在開車去接你。 [MSC, trad.]
    我现在在开车去接你。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ xiànzài zài kāichē qù jiē nǐ. [Pinyin]
    I'm driving over to pick you up right now.

Synonyms

  • (to pick up the phone): (Cantonese) 聽／听 (tīng)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

接

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. touch

Readings

Korean

Hanja

接 • ‎(jeop) (hangeul 접, revised jeop, McCune-Reischauer chŏp, Yale cep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

接 (tiếp)

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