匣

Translingual

Han character

匣 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸田中 (SWL), four-corner 7171₅, composition ⿷匚甲)

Derived characters

• 𪡄, 𭑻, 𭰙, 𮥇, 㭱, 𨧄, 筪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2610
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 84, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5323

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匣

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (甲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
笚	*ʔl'aːb, *ɡraːb
閘	*klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb
鉀	*klaːb, *kraːb
甲	*kraːb
胛	*kraːb
岬	*kraːb
押	*kraːb, *qraːb
玾	*kraːb
呷	*qʰraːb
匣	*ɡraːb
狎	*ɡraːb
柙	*ɡraːb
翈	*ɡraːb
炠	*ɡraːb
鴨	*qraːb
庘	*qraːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡraːb) : semantic 匚 + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haap⁶
• Northern Min (KCR): gă
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): a̍h / a̍p / ha̍p

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ab⁸

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁸ghaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siá
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²
    • Yale: syá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
    • Palladius: ся (sja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiár
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siár
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²-ʼrh
    • Yale: syár
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyal
    • Palladius: сяр (sjar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haap⁶
    • Yale: haahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːp̚²/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a̍h
    • Tâi-lô: a̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ah
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /aʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /aʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /aʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: a̍p
    • Tâi-lô: a̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ap
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ap̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ap̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍p
    • Tâi-lô: ha̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hap
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hap̚²⁴/

Note:

• a̍h, a̍p - vernacular;
• ha̍p - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ab⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a̍p
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ap̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁸ghaq
    • MiniDict: ghah^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦaʔ¹²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 匣
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕia³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕia²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕia⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ɕia⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕia⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕia²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕia⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕia⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕia⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕia²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕia³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕia²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕia̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕiɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xaʔ⁵⁴/ /ɕiaʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/xʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiaʔ⁴³/ 風～ /ɕia³¹/ ～子
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦaʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦaʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦiɑʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ɦa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xa²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ɕiɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/kap̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hɐp̚²/
	Nanning	/hap̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/hɐp̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hap̚⁵/ /aʔ⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/aʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ka²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ap̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ap̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: haep

Rime
Character	匣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	狎 (150)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡甲切
Baxter	haep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠap̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚap̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣap̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨp̚/
Li Rong	/ɣap̚/
Wang Li	/ɣap̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣap̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haap6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤr[a]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hæp ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁr[a]p/
English	box
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	匣
Reading #	1/1
No.	5938
Phonetic component	甲
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	狎
Old Chinese	/*ɡraːb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匣

1. small box, case

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Japanese

Kanji

匣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. box

   魍(もう)魎(りょう)の匣(はこ)

   Mōryō no hako

   The Mōryō's Box

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げふ (gefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かふ (kafu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ごう (gō)^{←がふ (gafu, historical)}
• Kun: はこ (hako, 匣)

Compounds

• 匣(さ)鉢(や) (saya)

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Korean

Hanja

匣 (eum 갑 (gap))

1. small box, case
2. coffer

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Vietnamese

Han character

匣: Hán Nôm readings: hạp, hộp, háp, tráp

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