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U+5612, 嘒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5612

[U+5611]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5613]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口手十一 (RQJM) or 口手十尸 (RQJS), four-corner 65071, composition )

  1. tiny
  2. chirping, whistling
  3. shrill sound, sharp

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 205, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4196
  • Dae Jaweon: page 428, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 672, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5612

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Etymology

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“small”
For this particular sense, Sagart (2021) modifies Baxter and Sagart's (2014) Old Chinese reconstruction to *Cə-pʰˤut and speculates a connection to (OC *bɯːd), (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids), all potentially from to a root relating to "dust".

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (40)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter xwejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hweiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷeiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwɛjH/
Li
Rong
/xueiH/
Wang
Li
/xiweiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xiweiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì
Middle
Chinese
‹ xwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷʰˁi[t]-s/
English to chirp (of insects)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5471
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰʷeːds/

Definitions

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  1. (onomatopoeia) chirp, shrill, whistle
  2. very small

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. sharp

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): けい (kei) (ke)

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC xwejH).

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [çe̞(ː)] ~ [he̞(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)/(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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(eumhun 작은 소리 (jageun sori hye))

  1. Used only when reading Classical Chinese texts.

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: tóe/toé

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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