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黠

黠

Translingual

Han character

黠 (radical 203 黑+6, 18 strokes, cangjie input 田火土口 (WFGR), four-corner 64361)

  1. sly, cunning, shrewd
  2. artful

References

  • KangXi: page 1520, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48097
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2054, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4748, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9EE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 黠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 黠
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (吉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
秸 *kriːl, *kriːd
髻 *kiːds
夡 *kʰids
鴶 *kriːd
袺 *kriːd, *kiːd
頡 *kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼 *kʰriːd
硈 *kʰriːd
咭 *kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠 *ɡriːd
聐 *ŋreːd
趌 *ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結 *kiːd
拮 *kiːd, *klid
桔 *kiːd
狤 *kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷 *qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭 *ɡiːd
翓 *ɡiːd
纈 *ɡiːd
吉 *klid
郆 *kid
詰 *kʰid
蛣 *kʰid
佶 *ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚 *ɡrid
姞 *ɡrid
欯 *qʰlid
恄 *qʰlid

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 黠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 鎋 (75)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡八切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠɛt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚæt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦəɨt̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣæt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 黠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hɛt ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤri[t]/
English shrewd

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 黠
Reading # 1/1
No. 5678
Phonetic
component		 吉
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 黠
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡriːd/

Definitions

黠

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Compounds

  • 奸黠
  • 小黠大痴
  • 惠黠
  • 慧黠
  • 捷黠
  • 桀黠
  • 汙吏黠胥／污吏黠胥
  • 狡黠

References

Japanese

Kanji

黠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

黠 • ‎(hil) (hangeul 힐, revised hil, McCune-Reischauer hil, Yale hil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黠 (hiệt)

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