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Translingual

Han character

(radical 211 +20, 35 strokes, cangjie input 卜大卜一山 (YKYMU), four-corner 23772, composition)

  1. missing tooth or teeth
  2. (of a utensil) damaged, broken, chipped

References

  • KangXi: page 1536, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48813
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2075, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4802, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+9F7E

Chinese

trad.
simp. 𫜰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad
*ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans
*ŋranʔ, *ŋanʔ
*ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, *ŋrad
*ŋans
*ɦŋʷaːn
*sɡaːd
*ŋaːd, *ŋraːd
*ŋrad, *ŋad

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. dented
  2. chipped
  3. gap-toothed
  4. toothless