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滑

滑

See also: 磆

Translingual

Han character

滑 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月月月 (EBBB), four-corner 37127, composition ⿰氵骨)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 643, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18032
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1050, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1678, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6ED1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 滑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (骨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
顝 *kʰuːl, *kʰuːlʔ, *kʰuːd
滑 *ɡruːd, *kuːd, *ɡuːd
猾 *ɡruːd
磆 *ɡruːd
螖 *ɡruːd
鶻 *ɡruːd, *kuːd, *ɡuːd
嗗 *qruːd
骨 *kuːd
縎 *kuːd
愲 *kuːd
蓇 *kuːd
尳 *kuːd, *ɡuːd
榾 *kuːd
搰 *ɡuːd
核 *ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 滑
Mandarin Beijing /xua³⁵/
Harbin /xua²⁴/
Tianjin /xuɑ⁴⁵/
Jinan /xua⁴²/
Qingdao /xua⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xua⁴²/
Xi'an /xua²⁴/
Xining /xua²⁴/
Yinchuan /xua⁵³/
Lanzhou /xua⁵³/
Ürümqi /xua⁵¹/
Wuhan /xua²¹³/
Chengdu /xua³¹/
Guiyang /xua²¹/
Kunming /xua̠³¹/
Nanjing /xuɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /xuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xuaʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /xuʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /xuaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɦuaʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦuaʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /ɦo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /xuaʔ²¹/
/uaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /uːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /fa²⁴/
/ua⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /uɒ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /uaʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /vat̚⁵/
Taoyuan /vɑt̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wat̚²/
Nanning /wɛt̚²²/
/wat̚²²/
Hong Kong /wat̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huat̚⁵/
/kut̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kouʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ko⁴²/
/xua²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /****̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kut̚³/
/kut̚⁵/ ～稽
Rime
Character 滑 滑 滑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 沒 (56) 沒 (56) 鎋 (76)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed
Division (等) I I II
Fanqie 古忽切 戸骨切 戸八切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuət̚/ /ɦuət̚/ /ɦˠuɛt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuot̚/ /ɦuot̚/ /ɦʷᵚæt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuət̚/ /ɣuət̚/ /ɣuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwət̚/ /ɦwət̚/ /ɦwəɨt̚/
Li
Rong		 /kuət̚/ /ɣuət̚/ /ɣuɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kuət̚/ /ɣuət̚/ /ɣwæt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuət̚/ /ɣuət̚/ /ɣwat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gu hú huá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 滑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwɛt ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-ɡˤrut/
English slippery

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 滑 滑 滑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 4315 4324 4333
Phonetic
component		 骨 骨 骨
Rime
group		 物 物 物
Rime
subdivision		 2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 滑 骨 搰
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡruːd/ /*kuːd/ /*ɡuːd/

Verb

滑

  1. to slip, to slide

Adjective

滑

  1. very smooth
  2. slippery

Derived terms

  • 滑行車／滑行车

Pronunciation

Definitions

滑

  1. Only used in 滑稽 (gǔjī).

Japanese

Kanji

滑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. slippery
  2. slide
  3. slip
  4. flunk

Readings

Kanji in this term
滑
なめ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

滑 ‎(hiragana なめ, romaji name)

  1. in mountaineering, the place where a little water is running on a smooth rock
  2. smooth thing, slippery thing

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

滑 • ‎(hwal, gol) (hangeul 활, 골, revised hwal, gol, McCune-Reischauer hwal, kol, Yale hwal, kol)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滑 (hoạt, gột, cốt)

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