卅

See also: 〺

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)

1. Shuowen Jiezi radical number 55.

Derived characters

• 𠯢, 𫭜, 𢌽, 𦬢, 𤽒, 𦱴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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. See also 廿.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): sà (sa⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄚˋ

  (Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): så

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹ / saa⁴ / saa¹ aa⁶
• Southern Min

  (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/
  • (Nanjing)
    • Nanjing Pinyin: så
    • Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): sa⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sa⁵/
• 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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sa̍p
    • Tâi-lô: sa̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sap
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sap̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
    • Tâi-lô: siap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siab
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
  • (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

(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 Việt readings: châu, táp, tạp
卅: Nôm readings: châu

1. Variant of 州, see there for more details.
   • Đại Việt sử ký tiệp lục tổng tự (大越史記捷錄總序), page 13a

     𤽗申利自稱羅昆𤤰仁宗。起兵縱横尼上原卅陸令。𨷑塘象脚。添𦇒民上流。

     Ngươi Thân Lợi tự xưng là con vua Nhân Tông. Khởi binh tung hoành nơi Thượng Nguyên, châu Lục Lệnh. Mở đường Tượng Cước, thêm nối dân thượng lưu.

     Thân Lợi self-proclaimed himself to be a son of Emperor [Lý] Nhân Tông. He raised troops across Thượng Nguyên and Lục Lệnh province. He paved the way at Tượng Cước and further gathered with the upland populations.