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裁

裁

Translingual

Han character

裁 (radical 145 衣+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈卜竹女 (JIYHV), four-corner 43750)

References

  • KangXi: page 1116, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34258
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1581, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3086, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+88C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 裁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (𢦏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
𢦏 *ʔslɯː
栽 *ʔslɯː, *zlɯːs
哉 *ʔslɯː
烖 *ʔslɯː
載 *ʔslɯːʔ, *ʔslɯːs, *zlɯːs
渽 *ʔsɯː
睵 *ʔsɯː, *sʰɯː
溨 *zɯː
裁 *zlɯː, *zlɯːs
酨 *l'ɯːs, *zlɯːs
蛓 *sʰles, *sʰɯs
胾 *ʔsrɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zlɯː, *zlɯːs) : semantic 衣 + phonetic 𢦏 ‎(OC *ʔslɯː).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 裁 裁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 從 (15) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 咍 (41) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 昨哉切 昨代切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zʌi/ /d͡zʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zəi/ /d͡zəiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zɒi/ /d͡zɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zəj/ /d͡zəjH/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zᴀi/ /d͡zᴀiH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zɒi/ /d͡zɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱɑ̆i/ /d͡zʱɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cái zài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 裁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cái
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]ˤə/
English cut out clothes

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 裁 裁
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 16498 16500
Phonetic
component
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 裁 載
Old
Chinese		 /*zlɯː/ /*zlɯːs/

Definitions

裁

  1. to cut out; to cut into parts
  2. to cut down; to decrease
  3. to dismiss
  4. to control
  5. to judge
  6. to select and plan
  7. form of writing
  8. Classifier for divisions of standard-size printing paper.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

裁

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. cut out, judge

Readings

Compounds

References

  • Halpern, New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

Korean

Hanja

裁 • ‎(jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

裁 (tài, trài)

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