奢

奢 U+2F85F, 奢 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F85F ← 夢 [U+2F85E] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𡚨 → [U+2F860]

Translingual

Han character

奢 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大十大日 (KJKA), four-corner 4060₄, composition ⿱大者)

1. extravagant, wasteful
2. exaggerate

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 253, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5964
• Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 542, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5962

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		奢

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸	*tjaː, *tja
者	*tjaːʔ
堵	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸	*tas, *das
儲	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮	*tjaʔ
渚	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署	*djas
薯	*djas
曙	*djas
書	*hlja
暑	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shē (she¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ / se¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâ
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sia / chhia

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shē
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: she
    • Wade–Giles: shê¹
    • Yale: shē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: she
    • Palladius: шэ (šɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ce¹ / se¹
    • Yale: chē / sē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹ / se¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cé¹ / sé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵/, /sɛː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: sa´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sa¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sa²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sia
    • Tâi-lô: sia
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sia³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sia⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia
    • Tâi-lô: tshia
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiaf
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴/

Note:

• sia - literary;
• chhia - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: syae

Rime
Character	奢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式車切
Baxter	syae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕia/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕia/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕia/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕia/
Li Rong	/ɕia/
Wang Li	/ɕĭa/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯a/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shē
Expected Cantonese Reflex	se1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.tʰA/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	奢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shē
Middle Chinese	‹ syæ ›
Old Chinese	/*s.tʰA/
English	extravagant
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	奢
Reading #	1/1
No.	16966
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奢
Old Chinese	/*hljaː/

Definitions

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References

• “奢”, 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

奢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: おごる (ogoru, 奢る)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 奢 (xa)

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