浙

Translingual

Etymology

A combination of semantic 氵 ("water", used for rivers) + phonetic 折 (Old Chinese: *tet), although usually glossed as semantic as well ("broken, crooked, bent").

Han character

浙 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水手竹中 (EQHL), four-corner 3212₁)

1. (geography, abbreviation) Short for 浙江: Zhejiang, the coastal province of eastern China lying between Hangzhou Bay and Fujian.
2. (historical, geography) A former name of the Qiantang River in Zhejiang.

References

• KangXi: page 623, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17458
• Dae Jaweon: page 1021, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1618, character 20
• Unihan data for U+6D59

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Cantonese

Hanzi

浙 (Yale jit3)

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Japanese

Kanji

浙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: よなげる (yonageru)

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Korean

Hanja

浙 (jeol)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 절 (revised: jeol, McCune-Reischauer: chŏl, Yale: cel)

• Name (hangeul): 강()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

浙 (Pinyin Zhè (Zhe4), Wade-Giles che⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

浙 (chiết)

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