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鞋

鞋

See also: 鞵

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

鞋 (radical 177 革+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿十土土 (TJGG), four-corner 44514, composition ⿰革圭)

References

  • KangXi: page 1387, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42813
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1902, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4333, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+978B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 鞋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
街 *kreː, *kreː
鞋 *ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾 *ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
佳 *kreː
鮭 *ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯 *ŋreː, *ŋre
崖 *ŋreː, *ŋre
啀 *ŋreː
厓 *ŋreː
捱 *ŋreː
睚 *ŋreːs
娃 *qreː
洼 *qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇 *qreː, *qʷraː
胿 *ɡeː, *kʷeː
溎 *qeːns
觟 *ɡʷraːʔ
黊 *ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳 *ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
蛙 *qʷraː, *qʷreː
窪 *qʷraː
卦 *kʷreːs
挂 *kʷreːs
掛 *kʷreːs
詿 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
罣 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓 *kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
鼃 *ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
圭 *kʷeː
珪 *kʷeː
邽 *kʷeː
閨 *kʷeː
袿 *kʷeː
窐 *kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
茥 *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
桂 *kʷeːs
筀 *kʷeːs
奎 *kʰʷeː
刲 *kʰʷeː
蝰 *kʰʷeː
楏 *kʰʷeː
睳 *qʰʷeː
畦 *ɡʷeː
眭 *ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
烓 *qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬 *kʰʷeʔ
恚 *qʷes
硅 *qʰʷreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː) : semantic 革 ‎(“leather”) + phonetic 圭 ‎(OC *kʷeː) – leather shoes.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 鞋
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɛ³⁵/
Harbin /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Tianjin /ɕie⁴⁵/
Jinan /ɕiɛ⁴²/
Qingdao /ɕiɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xi'an /xai²⁴/
Xining /xɛ²⁴/
Yinchuan /xɛ⁵³/
/ɕie⁵³/
Lanzhou /xɛ⁵³/
Ürümqi /xai⁵¹/
Wuhan /xai²¹³/
Chengdu /xai³¹/
Guiyang /xai²¹/
Kunming /xæ³¹/
Nanjing /ɕiɛ²⁴/
Hefei /ɕie̞⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xai¹¹/
/ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao /xæ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕie³¹/ 皮～
/xɛ³¹/ 靸～
Wu Shanghai /ɦa²³/
Suzhou /ɦɑ¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦie̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦa³¹/
Hui Shexian /xa⁴⁴/
Tunxi /xa⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xai¹³/
Xiangtan /ɦai¹²/
Gan Nanchang /hai²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /hai¹¹/
Taoyuan /hɑi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hai²¹/
Nanning /hai²¹/
Hong Kong /hai²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hai³⁵/
/ue³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ɛ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ai²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /oi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ɔi³¹/
Rime
Character 鞋 鞋
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 佳 (31) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 戸佳切 戸皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛ/ /ɦˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæ/ /ɦᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣæi/ /ɣɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨj/ /ɦəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛ/ /ɣɛi/
Wang
Li		 /ɣai/ /ɣɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣai/ /ɣăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá xié
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鞋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xié
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤre/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English shoe

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 鞋 鞋 鞋
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 4528 4534 4541
Phonetic
component		 圭 圭 圭
Rime
group		 支 支 支
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 諧 㥟 㥟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡreː/ /*ɡreː/ /*ɡreː/
Notes 說文作鞵 同鞵

Definitions

鞋

  1. shoe; footwear   (Classifier: 雙／双; 對／对; 隻／只)
    一雙鞋 / 一双鞋  ―  yī shuāng xié  ―  a pair of shoes
    穿上你的鞋，我們出去吃晚飯。 [MSC, trad.]
    穿上你的鞋，我们出去吃晚饭。 [MSC, simp.]
    Chuān shàng nǐ de xié, wǒmen chūqù chī wǎnfàn. [Pinyin]
    Put on your shoes. Let's go out for dinner.
    在這裡我必須脫鞋嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
    在这里我必须脱鞋吗？ [MSC, simp.]
    Zài zhèlǐ wǒ bìxū tuō xié ma? [Pinyin]
    Do I have to take off my shoes here?

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鞋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. shoes; shoe; footwear

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鞋
くつ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Unclear. Some Japanese sources suggest a borrowing from or cognate with Korean 구두 (gudu, “shoes”), but then some Korean sources suggest that the Korean term was borrowed from Japanese 靴 (kutsu, “shoes”).

This reading is more commonly spelled as 靴. See that entry for more detail.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

鞋 ‎(hiragana くつ, romaji kutsu)

  1. Alternative spelling of 靴: shoe, shoes, footwear

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鞋
わらじ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

/waragut͡su/ → /warand͡zu/ → /warand͡ʑi/ → /warad͡ʑi/

Originally a compound of 藁 ‎(wara, “straw”) +‎ 靴 ‎(kutsu, “shoes, boots, footwear”).[3][1]

This reading is more commonly spelled as 草鞋. See that entry for more detail.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

鞋 ‎(hiragana わらじ, romaji waraji, historical hiragana わらぢ)

  1. Alternative spelling of 草鞋: straw sandals

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Korean

Hanja

鞋 • ‎(hye) (hangeul 혜, McCune-Reischauer hye, Yale hyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鞋 (hài, giày)

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