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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 111 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人大竹木女 (OKHDV), four-corner 82444, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 825, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23995
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1238, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2585, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+77EE

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qraːlʔ
*qraːlʔ
*noːl, *nuːl, *njul
*qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol
*qoːl
*qoːl
*nuːlʔ, *qrols
*nols, *qrolʔ
*njol, *qrol
*qrol, *qrols
*qrol
*qrol
*qrol, *qrolʔ
*qrol, *qrolʔ
*njul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraːlʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *qrol, *qrolʔ).

might be an abbreviated form of (“short”).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ai²¹⁴/
Harbin /ai²¹³/
/nai²¹³/
Tianjin /nai¹³/
Jinan /iɛ⁵⁵/
/ŋɛ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /iɛ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ai⁵³/
Xi'an /ŋai⁵³/
Xining /nɛ⁵³/
Yinchuan /ɛ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɛ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ai⁵¹/
Wuhan /ŋai⁴²/
Chengdu /ŋai⁵³/
Guiyang /ŋai⁴²/
/ai⁴²/
Kunming /æ⁵³/
Nanjing /ae²¹²/
Hefei /ʐe̞²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣai⁵³/
Pingyao /ŋæ⁵³/
Hohhot /ŋɛ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /a³⁵/
Suzhou /ɑ⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔie̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /a³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ŋa³⁵/
Tunxi /ŋa³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ŋai⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ŋai⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ŋai²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /ai³¹/
Taoyuan /ɑi³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɐi³⁵/
Nanning /ɐi³⁵/
Hong Kong /ŋɐi³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ai⁵³/
/ue⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ɛ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ai²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /oi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ɔi²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (31)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠɛX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚæX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔæiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔaɨjX/
Li
Rong
/ʔɛX/
Wang
Li
/aiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔaiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12885
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qraːlʔ/

Definitions

  1. (of stature) short
    Antonyms: (gāo)
  2. low

Compounds

  • 低矮 (dī'ǎi)
  • 白矮星
  • 矬矮
  • 矮了半截
  • 矮人 (ǎirén)
  • 矮人一截
  • 矮人族
  • 矮人看場矮人看场
  • 矮人觀場矮人观场
  • 矮仔財矮仔财
  • 矮個矮个
  • 矮個兒矮个儿
  • 矮個子矮个子
  • 矮冬瓜 (ǎidōngguā)
  • 矮凳
  • 矮化
  • 矮墩墩
  • 矮子
  • 矮子看戲矮子看戏
  • 矮子觀場矮子观场
  • 矮小 (ǎixiǎo)
  • 矮小精悍
  • 矮巴溜丟矮巴溜丢
  • 矮星 (ǎixīng)
  • 矮牆矮墙
  • 矮牆淺屋矮墙浅屋
  • 矮矬
  • 矮矬子
  • 矮矬矬
  • 矮胖
  • 矮行星 (ǎixíngxīng)
  • 矮趴趴
  • 矮靈祭矮灵祭
  • 矲矮
  • 說矮話说矮话
  • 高矮 (gāo'ǎi)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Definitions

  1. small, little
  2. low

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(wae) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer wae, Yale way)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ải)

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