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U+7C92, 粒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C92

[U+7C91]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7C93]
U+F9F9, 粒
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9F9

[U+F9F8]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F9FA]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 119, +5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜廿 (FDYT), four-corner 90918, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 907, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26884
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1333, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3145, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7C92

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rɯb): semantic (rice) + phonetic (OC *rɯb).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • lia̍p - vernacular;
  • li̍p - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter lip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lip̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lip̚/
Li
Rong
/liəp̚/
Wang
Li
/lĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lap6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lip ›
Old
Chinese
/*p.rəp/
English grains of rice

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7870
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rɯb/

Definitions[edit]

  1. grain
  2. small particle
  3. Classifier for small, round objects: granule, grain, particle, pieceall nouns using this classifier
      ―    ―  a grain of rice
    [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 lap1 tong4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a piece of candy
  4. (Hokkien, Eastern Min, Singapore and Malaysian Mandarin) Classifier for round, solid objects.
    西瓜  ―  xīguā  ―  a watermelon
  5. (Cantonese) Classifier for hours.
  6. (Cantonese) Classifier for offspring.
  7. (Cantonese) Classifier for pips (insignia).
  8. (Cantonese, by extension) high-ranking police officer; police officer with pips
  9. (Cantonese, slang) Classifier for money: ten thousand yuan, dollars, etc.
    Synonym:

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. grains
  2. drop
  3. counter for tiny particles

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

(つぶ) (tsubu

  1. grain, bead, drop

Counter[edit]

(つぶ) (-tsubu

  1. counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC lip). Recorded as Middle Korean 립〮 (líp) (Yale: lip) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (al rip), South Korea (al ip))

  1. Hanja form? of / (grain).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: lạp, lép

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