屑

Translingual

Han character

屑 (radical 44 尸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸火月 (SFB), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿸尸肖)

1. bits, scraps, crumbs, fragments

References

• KangXi: page 302, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7709
• Dae Jaweon: page 599, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 975, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5C51

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		屑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit³
• Min Nan (POJ): sut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hsieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sit³
    • Yale: sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /siːt̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sut
    • Tâi-lô: sut
    • IPA (Taipei): /sut̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sut̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (屑, reconstructed)
Character (屑), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 屑 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 先結切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/set̚/	/siet̚/	/set̚/	/set̚/	/sɛt̚/	/siet̚/	/sɛt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (屑, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
屑								xiè								‹ set ›								/*s-lˤi[t]/								detail, trifle; fragment
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
屑					15063					佾					質					1					屑					/*slɯːd/
屑					15066					佾					物					1					窣					/*sluːd/					原文作八，見方言

Compounds

• 头皮屑 (tóupíxiè)

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Japanese

Kanji

屑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: くず (kuzu), いさぎよい (isagiyoi)

Noun

屑 (hiragana くず, katakana クズ, romaji kuzu)

1. scrap, waste, bit

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Korean

Hanja

屑 (seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune-Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屑 (tiết)

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