奢

Translingual

Han character

奢 (radical 37 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大十大日 (KJKA), four-corner 4060₄, composition ⿱大者)

1. extravagant, wasteful
2. exaggerate

References

• KangXi: page 253, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5964
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 542, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5962

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		奢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shē (she¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹, se¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shē
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜ
    • Wade-Giles: shê¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: she
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ce¹, se¹
    • Yale: chē, sē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹, se¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵/, /sɛː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (奢, reconstructed)
Character (奢), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 書 (26) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 式車切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɕia/	/ɕi̯a/	/ɕia/	/ɕia/	/ɕia/	/ɕĭa/	/ɕia/

Old Chinese pronunciation (奢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
奢								shē								‹ syæ ›								/*s.tʰA/								extravagant
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
奢					16966					者					魚					0					奢					/*hljaː/

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Japanese

Kanji

奢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: おごる (ogoru)

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Korean

Hanja

奢 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

奢 (xa)

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