海
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[edit] Translingual
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[edit] Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 每
The Old Chinese word is believed to have been pronounced very much like 每, with an m- initial. Baxter-Sagart reconstruct the Old Chinese as *m̥ˤəʔ; compare with 每 *mˤəʔ.
Appears with 母 (2 dots) in Chinese, yielding 海, but with simplified form 毋 (1 cross stroke) in Japanese shinjitai, yielding 海 = 氵 + 毎. These are however encoded with the same Unicode character – see Han unification.
[edit] Han character
海 (radical 85 水+7 in Chinese, 水+6 in Japanese, in Chinese 10 strokes, in Japanese 9 strokes, cangjie input 水人田卜 (EOWY), four-corner 38157)
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 625, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17450
- Dae Jaweon: page 1023, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1627, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6D77
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
海 (jyutping hoi2, Yale hoi2)
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海
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[edit] Hanja
海 (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae, Yale hay)
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[edit] Hanzi
海 (pinyin hǎi (hai3), Wade-Giles hai3)
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[edit] Han character
海 (*xə̌i)