圠

圠 U+5720, 圠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5720 ← 土 [U+571F] CJK Unified Ideographs 圡 → [U+5721]

Translingual

Han character

圠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 土山 (GU), four-corner 4211₀, composition ⿰土乚)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 223, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4868
• Dae Jaweon: page 455, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 417, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5720

Chinese

simp. and trad.		圠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
劜	*qreːd
札	*sqriːd
扎	*sqriːd
蚻	*ʔsriːd
紮	*ʔsriːd
軋	*qriːd
圠	*qriːd
穵	*qriːd, *qʷriːd
挖	*qʷriːd
鳦	*qriːd, *qrid
耴	*ŋrid, *teb
乙	*qriɡ
肊	*qrɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qriːd) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 乙 (OC *qriɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yà (ya⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aat³, caak³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yà
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yà
    • Wade–Giles: ya⁴
    • Yale: yà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: aat³, caak³
    • Yale: aat, chaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aat⁸, tsaak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ad³, cag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːt̚³/, /t͡sʰaːk̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'eat

Rime
Character	圠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	山 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏黠切
Baxter	'eat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɛt̚/
Wang Li	/æt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ya
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aat3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qriːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	圠
Reading #	1/1
No.	14915
Phonetic component	乙
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	軋
Old Chinese	/*qriːd/

Definitions

圠

1. bend of a mountain
2. Used in 坱圠 (yǎngyà).
3. to harden soil

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 85

Japanese

Kanji

圠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: えち (echi)
• On: あつ (atsu)
• Kun: かすか (kasuka, 圠か)