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插

插

See also: 挿 and 揷

Translingual

Shinjitai 挿
Simplified 插
Traditional 插

Han character

插 (radical 64 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手竹十X (QHJX), four-corner 52077, composition ⿰扌臿)

References

  • KangXi: page 441, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12346
  • Dae Jaweon: page 792, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1918, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+63D2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 插

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
偛 *ʔsreːb
插 *sʰreːb
鍤 *sʰreːb, *r̥ʰeb
臿 *sʰreːb
喢 *sʰreːb, *sreːb, *sreb, *l̥ʰjeb
牐 *zreːb
歃 *sreːb, *sreb
敮 *hreːb

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 插
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁴⁴/ ～上門
/ʈ͡ʂʰa²¹³/ ～手
Tianjin /t͡sʰɑ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰa²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰa⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰa²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sʰa²¹/
Xining /t͡sʰa⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰa¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰa¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰa³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰa²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰa̠³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰaʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡sʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰa²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰaʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰap̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰɑp̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰap̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰap̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰap̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰap̚³²/
/t͡sʰaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰa²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰap̚²/
/t͡sʰaʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sa⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 插
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 洽 (152)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 楚洽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰˠɛp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰəɨp̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰɐp̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cha
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 插
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrhɛp ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə-[tsʰ]<r>op/
English insert

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 插
Reading # 1/1
No. 1190
Phonetic
component		 臿
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 插
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰreːb/

Definitions

插

  1. to insert; to stick into
  2. to plant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

插

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

插 • ‎(sap) (hangeul 삽, revised sap, McCune-Reischauer sap, Yale sap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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