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瑕

瑕

Translingual

Han character

瑕 (radical 96 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土口尸水 (MGRSE), four-corner 17147, composition ⿰王叚)

  1. flaw in gem
  2. fault, defect

References

  • KangXi: page 737, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1128, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7455

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瑕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瑕
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (叚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
葭 *kraː
麚 *kraː
瘕 *kraː, *kraːʔ
豭 *kraː
貑 *kraː
猳 *kraː
犌 *kraː
假 *kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏 *kraːʔ
婽 *kraːʔ
椵 *kraːʔ
叚 *kraːʔ
蝦 *qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆 *qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞 *ɡraː
遐 *ɡraː
瑕 *ɡraː
鰕 *ɡraː
碬 *ɡraː
蕸 *ɡraː
赮 *ɡraː
鍜 *ɡraː
騢 *ɡraː
暇 *ɡraːs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 瑕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣa/
Wang
Li		 /ɣa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瑕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤra/
English flaw, blemish

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 瑕
Reading # 1/1
No. 5967
Phonetic
component		 叚
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 遐
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡraː/
Notes 叚轉註字

Definitions

瑕

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Japanese

Kanji

瑕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

瑕 • ‎(ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑕 (hà)

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