寫

See also: 写 and 冩

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sjaːʔ): semantic 宀 + phonetic 舄 ‎(OC *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ)

Han character

寫 (radical 40 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹X火 (JHXF), four-corner 3032₇, composition ⿱宀舄)

References

• KangXi: page 292, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7320
• Dae Jaweon: page 578, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 953, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5BEB

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Chinese

trad.		寫
simp.		写

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiě (xie³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siá
• Min Dong (BUC): siā
• Min Nan (POJ): siá
• Wu (Wiktionary): xia (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsieh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiee
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: se²
    • Yale: sé
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɛː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siá
    • Hakka Romanization System: xia`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xia³
    • IPA: /ɕi̯a³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siā
    • IPA ^(key): /sia³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siá
    • Tâi-lô: siá
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siar
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕia⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕia⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xia (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕiᴀ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 寫
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiɛ²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/ɕiɛ²¹³/
	Tianjin	/ɕie¹³/
	Jinan	/ɕiə⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/siə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/siɛ⁵³/
	Xi'an	/ɕiɛ⁵³/
	Xining	/ɕi⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ɕie⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiə⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/ɕiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕie⁴²/
	Chengdu	/ɕie⁵³/
	Guiyang	/ɕie⁴²/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ⁵³/
	Nanjing	/sie²¹²/
	Hefei	/ɕi²⁴/ /se²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕie⁵³/
	Pingyao	/ɕie̞⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ɕie⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕia³⁵/
	Suzhou	/siɑ⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɕi⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/sei³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/se³⁵/ /ɕye³⁵/
	Tunxi	/siɛ³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/sie⁴¹/ /sia⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/siɒ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕiɑ²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/sia³¹/
	Taoyuan	/siɑ³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sɛ³⁵/
	Nanning	/ɬɛ³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/sɛ³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sia⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/sia³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/sia²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/sia⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tia²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /sia^X/▼

Rime
Character	寫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	悉姐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siaX/
Pan Wuyun	/siaX/
Shao Rongfen	/siaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaX/
Li Rong	/siaX/
Wang Li	/sĭaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiě

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-qʰAʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sjaːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寫	寫
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiě	xiě
Middle Chinese	‹ sjæX ›	‹ sjæX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʰAʔ/	/*s-qʰAʔ/
English	depict	drain off
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	寫
Reading #	1/1
No.	13430
Phonetic component	舄
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	寫
Old Chinese	/*sjaːʔ/

Verb

寫

1. to write, to compose

   我給媽媽寫了一封信。 [MSC, trad.]

   我给妈妈写了一封信。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ gěi māma xiě le yī fēng xìn. [Pinyin]

   I wrote a letter to my mother.

2. to draw, to sketch

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Japanese

Kanji

寫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 写)

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Readings

• Goon: しゃ (sha)
• Kan’on: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: うつす (utsusu)

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Korean

Hanja

寫 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寫 (tả, giã)

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