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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 96 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土大尸口 (MGKSR), four-corner 16100)

  1. an ornament attached to a woman's hairpin

References

  • KangXi: page 729, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20915
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1109, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+73C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妿 *kaːl, *qaːl
*ɡaːls
*ka, *kal, *kraːl
*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
*ɡa, *ɡal
*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːl
*kraːls
*kraːls
*ɡʷal

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/ka/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨ/
Li
Rong
/ka/
Wang
Li
/ka/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ka/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiā
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5880
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kraːl/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(ga) (hangeul , revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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