寫

See also: 写 and 冩

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 + phonetic 舄

Han character

寫 (radical 40 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹X火 (JHXF), four-corner 3032₇, composition ⿱宀舄)

References

• KangXi: page 292, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7320
• Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 953, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5BEB

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Chinese

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trad.		寫
simp.		写

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiě (xie³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se²
• Min Nan (POJ): siá
• Wu (WT Romanisation): xia (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsieh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiee
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: se²
    • Yale: sé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɛː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • POJ: sía
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siá
    • Tâi-lô: siá
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕia⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: xia (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕiᴀ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (寫, reconstructed)
Character (寫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 悉姐切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siaX/	/si̯aX/	/siaX/	/siaX/	/siaX/	/sĭaX/	/siaX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (寫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
寫								xiě								‹ sjæX ›								/*s-qʰAʔ/								depict
寫								xiě								‹ sjæX ›								/*s-qʰAʔ/								drain off
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
寫					13430					舄					魚					0					寫					/*sjaːʔ/

Verb

寫

1. to write, to compose

   我給媽媽寫了一封信。 [MSC, trad.]

   我给妈妈写了一封信。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ gěi māma xiě le yī fēng xìn. [Pinyin]

   I wrote a letter to my mother.

2. to draw, to sketch

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Japanese

Kanji

寫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 写)

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Readings

• On: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: うつす (utsusu)

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Korean

Hanja

寫 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寫 (tả, giã)

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