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See also:
U+5480, 咀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5480

[U+547F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5481]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口月一 (RBM), four-corner 67010, composition )

  1. suck
  2. chew, masticate

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 184, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3476
  • Dae Jaweon: page 403, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 599, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5480

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ) : semantic (speech) + phonetic (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s (to eat; food; to feed; rice); cognate with Tibetan (za, to eat), Burmese စား (ca:, to eat), Chepang [script needed] (jeʔ-sa, to eat), Japhug ndza (to eat) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019). Possibly related to (OC *sʰaːn, “to eat; meal”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (15) (13)
Final () (22) (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter dzjoX tsjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zɨʌX/ /t͡sɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziɔX/ /t͡siɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ziɔX/ /t͡siɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zɨə̆X/ /t͡sɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziɔX/ /t͡siɔX/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭoX/ /t͡sĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯woX/ /t͡si̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zeoi6 zeoi2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10416 10437
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsaʔ/ /*zaʔ/

Definitions

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  1. to chew; to masticate

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“mouth; etc.”).
(This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, second-round simplified, and variant form of ).
Notes:

Usage notes

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It is still commonly used as a shorthand. Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (现代汉语规范词典) proscribes the use of as the simplified form of (zuǐ).

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. chew; savor; understand[1]

Readings

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References

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  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Hanja

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(jeo) (hangeul , revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: trớ

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