咧

Translingual

Han character

咧 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口一弓弓 (RMNN), four-corner 6200₀, composition ⿰口列)

1. stretched mouth, grimace, grin

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3536
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 613, character 16
• Unihan data for U+54A7

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 列 (OC *red).

Etymology 1

trad.		咧
simp. #		咧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liē (lie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lit⁶ / le² / le¹ / le⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lia̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liē
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lie
    • Wade–Giles: lieh¹
    • Yale: lyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lhie
    • Palladius: ле (le)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lit⁶ / le² / le¹ / le⁴
    • Yale: liht / lé / lē / lèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lit⁹ / le² / le¹ / le⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lid⁶ / lé² / lé¹ / lé⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːt̚²/, /lɛː³⁵/, /lɛː⁵⁵/, /lɛː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: lia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛt̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛt̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛt̚⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咧

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Etymology 2

trad.		咧
simp. #		咧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liě (lie³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄝˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liě
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liě
    • Wade–Giles: lieh³
    • Yale: lyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liee
    • Palladius: ле (le)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ²¹⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咧

1. to draw back the corners of one's mouth

Etymology 3

trad.		咧
simp. #		咧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lie (lie⁵／lie⁰)

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄌㄧㄝ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lie
    • Zhuyin: ˙ㄌㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lie̊
    • Wade–Giles: lieh⁵
    • Yale: lye
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .lie
    • Palladius: ле (le)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咧

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Etymology 4

trad.		咧
simp. #		咧
alternative forms		在 塊／块 的 啲

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): le̍h / --leh / lér / teh / leh / lé

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍h
    • Tâi-lô: le̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leh
    • IPA (Xiamen): /leʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --leh
    • Tâi-lô: --leh
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lér
    • Tâi-lô: lér
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lə⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teh
    • Tâi-lô: teh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /teʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: leh
    • Tâi-lô: leh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /leʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lé
    • Tâi-lô: lé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lea
    • IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /le⁵⁵⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咧

1. (Southern Min) in the process of; currently

   我咧食飯。／我咧食饭。 [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  Góa teh chia̍h-pn̄g. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  I'm eating.

Synonyms

• (Mandarin) 在 (zài), 正在 (zhèngzài)

Etymology 5

trad.		咧
simp. #		咧

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): --leh

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --leh
    • Tâi-lô: --leh

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咧

1. Sentence-final particle signalling emphasis of the preceding words.
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   你好無？我真好。你咧？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
   你好无？我真好。你咧？ [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

   Lí hó--bô? Góa chin hó. Lí--leh? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   How are you? I'm well. What about you?

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00314
• “咧”, 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–
• “Query for 咧”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

咧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れつ (retsu); れち (rechi)

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Korean

Hanja

咧 • (ryeol) (hangeul 렬)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 咧 (lác, sẹt, liệt, sèn, xẹt)

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References

• Nom Foundation