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)

1. write
2. draw, sketch
3. compose

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

寫 (simplified 写, Yale se2)

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Japanese

Kanji

寫

Readings

• On: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: うつす (utsusu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寫 (simplified 写, pinyin xiě (xie3), Wade-Giles hsieh³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

寫 (*siǎ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寫 (tả, giã)