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薛

薛

Translingual

Han character

薛 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹口十 (THRJ), four-corner 44741, composition ⿱艹⿰𠂤辛)

  1. kind of marsh grass
  2. the name of a feudal state
  3. A surname​.

References

  • KangXi: page 1061, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32123
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3303, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+859B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 薛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (薛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
躠 *sŋaːd
嶭 *ŋaːd, *ŋeːd
櫱 *ŋaːd, *ŋred
薛 *sŋed
辥 *sŋed
孼 *ŋred
蘖 *ŋred
蠥 *ŋred
孽 *ŋred
糵 *ŋred

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 薛
Mandarin Beijing /ɕyɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕye²¹/
Jinan /ɕyə²¹³/
Qingdao /syə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /syɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /ɕi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕyə¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕyɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕie²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕye³¹/
Guiyang /ɕie²¹/
Kunming /ɕiɛ³¹/
Nanjing /syeʔ⁵/
Hefei /ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕyəʔ²/
Pingyao /ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /siəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /sei²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ɕyeʔ²¹/
/seʔ²¹/
Tunxi /siɛ⁵/
Xiang Changsha /sie²⁴/
Xiangtan /sie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ɕyɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /siet̚¹/
Taoyuan /siet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sit̚³/
Nanning /ɬyt̚³³/
Hong Kong /sit̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siat̚³²/
/siʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /siɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tit̚⁵/
Rime
Character 薛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 薛 (81)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 私列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siat̚/
Li
Rong		 /siɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薛 薛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xuē xuē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjet › ‹ sjet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.ŋat/ /*s.ŋat/
English spec. of plant (place name)

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 薛
Reading # 1/1
No. 14060
Phonetic
component		 薛
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 薛
Old
Chinese		 /*sŋed/

Definitions

薛

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Japanese

Kanji

薛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: せつ (setsu), せち (sechi)
  • Kun: かわらよもぎ (kawarayomogi), はますげ (hamasuge)

Korean

Hanja

薛 • ‎(seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薛 (tiết)

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