埡

See also: 垭

Translingual

Han character

埡 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土一中一 (GMLM), four-corner 4111₂, composition ⿰土亞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 230, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5216
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 449, character 5
• Unihan data for U+57E1

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Chinese

trad.		埡
simp.		垭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
椏	*qaːʔ, *qraː
錏	*qraː
鵶	*qraː
啞	*qraːʔ, *qraːɡs, *qraːɡ, *qraːɡ
瘂	*qraːʔ
亞	*qraːɡs
婭	*qraːɡs
俹	*qraːɡs
稏	*qraːɡs
惡	*qaː, *qaːɡs, *qaːɡ
噁	*qaːɡs
堊	*qaːɡ
蝁	*qaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 亞 (OC *qraːɡs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yā, yà (ya¹, ya⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚ, ㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yā
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ya
    • Wade–Giles: ya¹
    • Yale: yā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ia
    • Palladius: я (ja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jä⁵⁵/
      
  • (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: aa³
    • Yale: a
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: a³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aː³³/

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 埡

1. (dialectal) strip of land between hills; narrow mountain pass; character used in place names

References

• “埡”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

埡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: お (o)
• Kun: さと (sato, 埡)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 埡 (ái)

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References

• Nom Foundation