卅

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卅 U+5345, 卅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5345 ← 卄 [U+5344] CJK Unified Ideographs 卆 → [U+5346]

Translingual

Han character

卅 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 廿十 (TJ), four-corner 4400₀, composition ⿻川一 or ⿻丿卄 or ⿻廾丨)

Derived characters

• 𠯢, 𫭜, 𢌽, 𦬢, 𤽒, 𦱴

References

• KangXi: page 156, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2700
• Dae Jaweon: page 353, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 59, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5345

Chinese

simp. and trad.		卅
alternative forms		丗 𠦃 𠦄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卅
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

十 (shí, “10”), repeated three times.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sà (sa⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹, saa⁴, saa¹ aa⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): sa̍p / siap

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sab⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sà
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sà
    • Wade–Giles: sa⁴
    • Yale: sà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sah
    • Palladius: са (sa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saa¹, saa⁴, saa¹ aa⁶
    • Yale: sā, sàh, sā ah
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹, saa⁴, saa¹ aa⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹, sa⁴, sa¹ a⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saː⁵⁵/, /saː²¹/, /saː⁵⁵ aː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sa̍p
    • Tâi-lô: sa̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sap
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sap̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
    • Tâi-lô: siap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siab
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɕiap̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sab⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sap
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sap̚²/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*suːb/, /*soːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卅	卅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10954	10955
Phonetic component	卅	卅
Rime group	緝	盍
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	趿	𠎷
Old Chinese	/*suːb/	/*soːb/

Definitions

卅

1. thirty

Synonyms

• 三十 (sānshí)
• (Cantonese, colloquial) 卅呀

Compounds

• 五卅慘案／五卅惨案 (Wǔ-Sà Cǎn'àn)
• 五卅運動／五卅运动 (Wǔ-Sà Yùndòng)
• 西卅店 (Xīsàdiàn)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), a00433
• “卅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

卅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (archaic) thirty

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←そふ (sofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さふ (safu, historical)}
• Kun: さんじゅう (sanjū, 卅)^{←さんじふ (sanzifu, 卅, historical)}; みそ (miso, 卅)

Korean

Hanja

卅 (eumhun 삼십 삽 (samsip sap))
卅 (eumhun 서른 삽 (seoreun sap))

1. thirty, thirtieth

Vietnamese

Han character

卅: Hán Nôm readings: tạp, nẫm

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