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歃

歃

Translingual

Han character

歃 (radical 76 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X弓人 (HXNO) or 一X弓 (MXN), four-corner 27782, composition ⿰臿欠)

  1. smear one's mouth with blood of a victim when taking an oath

References

  • KangXi: page 570, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16131
  • Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2146, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6B43

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 歃

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

Rime
Character 歃 歃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 生 (21) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 葉 (156) 洽 (152)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III II
Fanqie 山輒切 山洽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠiᴇp̚/ /ʃˠɛp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚiɛp̚/ /ʃᵚæp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃiæp̚/ /ʃɐp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂjiap̚/ /ʂəɨp̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʃjɛp̚/ /ʃɐp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ʃĭɛp̚/ /ʃɐp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂi̯ɛp̚/ /ʂăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 she sha
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歃 歃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shà shà
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ srɛp › ‹ srjep ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s](ˤ)r[o]p/ /*[s]r[o]p/
English smear mouth with victim"s blood smear mouth with blood

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 歃 歃
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1196 1200
Phonetic
component		 臿 臿
Rime
group		 盍 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 霎 萐
Old
Chinese		 /*sreːb/ /*sreb/

Definitions

歃

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Japanese

Kanji

歃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to sip, slurp, suck

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

歃 (sáp, khảm)

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