卸

See also: 缷

Translingual

Han character

卸 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+6 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 卩+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 人一尸中 (OMSL), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰𦈢卩)

1. to lay down
2. to retire from office

Derived characters

• 啣, 𪩆, 御, 𨓴, 𦖐, 𧌋, 𨨶

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2861
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 314, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5378

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Chinese

trad.		卸
simp. #		卸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 午 + 止 + 卪.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sia
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sià

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siè
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh⁴
    • Yale: syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: se³
    • Yale: se
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sia
    • Hakka Romanization System: xia
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xia⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /si̯a⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sià
    • Tâi-lô: sià
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sia²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sia⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sia²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sia¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sia²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sjaeH

Rime
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	司夜切
Baxter	sjaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siaH/
Pan Wuyun	/siaH/
Shao Rongfen	/siaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaH/
Li Rong	/siaH/
Wang Li	/sĭaH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	se3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋjaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ sjæH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
English	to unload
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	卸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13166
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蝑
Old Chinese	/*sŋjaːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 卸

1. to unload; to remove
2. to retire (from office)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

卸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. wholesale
2. to grate, grated

Readings

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: おろし (oroshi, 卸, Jōyō); おろす (orosu, 卸す, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

卸 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卸 (tá, hằm, xả)

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