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舌
舌
Translingual
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Han character
舌 (radical 135 舌+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口 (HJR), four-corner 20604, composition ⿱千口 (GJK) or ⿱干口 (TV))
- Kangxi radical #135, ⾆ (“tongue”).
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/舌
- 佸, 話 (话), 括, 咶, 狧, 活, 恬, 姡, 栝, 甛, 秳, 銛 (铦), 聒, 蛞, 絬, 餂, 乱, 刮, 敌, 辞, 鴰 (鸹), 頢, 筈, 髺, 适, 趏, 颳, 䦚
References
- KangXi: page 1006, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30277
- Dae Jaweon: page 1463, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2941, character 1
- Unihan data for U+820C
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
舌 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 舌
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| Oracle bone script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (舌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 絬 | *sled |
| 舌 | *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed |
Pictogram (象形) , from a pictograph of a forked tongue emerging upwards from a mouth (口).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ
- Wade-Giles: shê2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sher
- IPA (key): /ʂɤ³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sit6
- Yale: siht
- Cantonese Pinyin: sit9
- IPA (key): /siːt̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sa̍t
- Hakka Romanization System: sad
- Hagfa Pinyim: sad6
- IPA: /sat̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍h / sia̍t
- Tâi-lô: tsi̍h / sia̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: cih, siat
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕiɛt̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiʔ²⁴/, /ɕiɛt̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiʔ¹²¹/, /ɕiɛt̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕiɛt̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕiɛt̚⁴/
- Note: chi̍h - vernacular; sia̍t - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: zih8
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsi̍h
- IPA (key): /t͡siʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: zeq (T5)
- IPA (key): /z̻əʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 舌 | 舌 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) | 船 (27) |
| Final (韻) | 黠 (72) | 薛 (81) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | II | III |
| Fanqie | 下刮切 | 食列切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦˠuat̚/ | /ʑiᴇt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦʷᵚat̚/ | /ʑiɛt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣuɐt̚/ | /ʑjæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦwaɨt̚/ | /ʑiat̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣuat̚/ | /d͡ʑiɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣwat̚/ | /d͡ʑĭɛt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣwăt̚/ | /d͡ʑʰi̯ɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
huá | shé |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 舌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shé |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ zyet › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mə.lat/ |
| English | tongue |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
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| Character | 舌 | 舌 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 7563 | 11220 |
| Phonetic component |
桰 | 舌 |
| Rime group |
月 | 月 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
頢 | 舌 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡroːd/ | /*ɦbljed/ |
| Notes | 說文氏下口隸變，從口氒省聲 | |
Definitions
舌
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 舌頭 (“tongue”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 舌 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 舌頭 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 舌頭 |
| Taiwan | 舌頭 | |
| Jinan | 舌頭 | |
| Xi'an | 舌頭 | |
| Wuhan | 舌頭、賺頭 | |
| Chengdu | 舌頭兒 | |
| Yangzhou | 舌頭 | |
| Hefei | 舌頭 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 脷 |
| Hong Kong | 脷 | |
| Taishan | 脷 | |
| Yangjiang | 脷 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 舌頭 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 舌嫲 |
| Xingning | 舌嫲 | |
| Huidong (Huizhou) | 舌嫲 | |
| Qujiang | 舌頭 | |
| Xiaosanjiang | 舌嫲 | |
| Changting | 舌頭 | |
| Pingyu | 舌嫲 | |
| Wuping | 舌嫲 | |
| Liancheng | 舌頭 | |
| Ninghua | 舌頭 | |
| Yudu | 舌頭、舌刁 | |
| Ruijin | 舌頭 | |
| Shicheng | 舌咀 | |
| Shangyou | 舌刁 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 舌嫲 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 舌嫲 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 舌嫲 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 舌嫲 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 舌嫲 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 舌 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 舌頭 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 舌 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 喙舌 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 舌仔 |
| Xiamen | 舌仔 | |
| Zhangzhou | 舌仔 | |
| Taipei | 喙舌 | |
| Kaohsiung | 舌 | |
| Tainan | 舌 | |
| Taichung | 喙舌 | |
| Yilan | 舌 | |
| Lukang | 舌 | |
| Sanxia | 喙舌 | |
| Kinmen | 舌 | |
| Magong | 舌 | |
| Hsinchu | 喙舌 | |
| Chaozhou | 舌 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 舌頭 |
| Wenzhou | 口舌 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 舌子 |
| Shuangfeng | 舌子 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 舌
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Japanese
Kanji
舌
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 舌 |
|
した Grade: 5 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
舌 (hiragana した, romaji shita)
See also
- べろ (bero)
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
舌 • (seol) (hangeul 설, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)
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Vietnamese
Han character
舌 (thiệt, thịt)
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