屑

Translingual

Han character

屑 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸火月 (SFB), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿸尸肖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 302, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7709
• Dae Jaweon: page 599, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 975, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5C51

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Chinese

trad.		屑
simp. #		屑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 屑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
洕	*lins
佾	*lɯd
屑	*slɯːd, *sluːd
榍	*slɯːd
糏	*slɯːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sep / sut
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sut / seh / seeh / sap / sa̍p / siat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siag⁴ / siêg⁴ / siah⁴ / siao⁴ / siou⁴ / sug⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siè
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh⁴
    • Yale: syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sit³
    • Yale: sit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sep / sut
    • Hakka Romanization System: seb` / sud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: seb⁵ / sud⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sep̚²/, /sut̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sut
    • Tâi-lô: sut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sud
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sut̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seh
    • Tâi-lô: seh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /seʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /seʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seeh
    • Tâi-lô: seeh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɛʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sap
    • Tâi-lô: sap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sab
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sap̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sa̍p
    • Tâi-lô: sa̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sap
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sap̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siat
    • Tâi-lô: siat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɛt̚³²/

Note:

• sut, seh/seeh - vernacular;
• sap/sa̍p - probably substitute for 霎;
• siat - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: siag⁴ / siêg⁴ / siah⁴ / siao⁴ / siou⁴ / sug⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siak / siek / siah / siau / siou / suk
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siak̚²/, /siek̚²/, /siaʔ²/, /siau²/, /siou²/, /suk̚²/

Note:

• siag4/siêg4 - literary (siêg4 - Chaozhou);
• siah4 - vernacular;
• siao4/siou4 - vernacular (俗) (siou4 - Chaozhou);
• sug4 - in 鋸屑.

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• Middle Chinese: set

Rime
Character	屑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先結切
Baxter	set
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/set̚/
Pan Wuyun	/set̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛt̚/
Li Rong	/set̚/
Wang Li	/siet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/siet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-lˤi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slɯːd/, /*sluːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ set ›
Old Chinese	/*s-lˁi[t]/
English	detail, trifle; fragment
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	屑	屑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15063	15066
Phonetic component	佾	佾
Rime group	質	物
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	屑	窣
Old Chinese	/*slɯːd/	/*sluːd/
Notes		原文⺌作八，見方言

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 屑

1. bits, scraps, crumbs, fragments

   麵包屑／面包屑  ―  miànbāoxiè  ―  bread crumbs

2. worth doing

   不屑  ―  bùxiè  ―  not worth doing

   不屑一顧／不屑一顾  ―  bùxièyīgù  ―  displeasing to look at, "to not be worth one glance"

Synonyms

• (bits): (Cantonese) 碎 (suì)

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Japanese

Kanji

屑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)
• Kun: くず (kuzu, 屑)^{←くづ (kudu, 屑, historical)}; いさぎよい (isagiyoi, 屑い)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
屑
くず Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

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Noun

屑(くず) • (kuzu) ^{←くづ (kudu)?}

1. scrap, waste, bit
2. human trash

   社(しゃ)会(かい)のクズ

   shakai no kuzu

   dregs of society

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 紙(かみ)屑(くず) (kamikuzu): wastepaper
• 屑(くず)紙(かみ) (kuzukami): wastepaper
• 屑(くず)鉄(てつ) (kuzutetsu): scrap iron
• 鉄(てつ)屑(くず) (tetsukuzu): scrap iron
• 星(ほし)屑(くず) (hoshikuzu): stardust

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Korean

Hanja

屑 • (seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune–Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 屑 (tiết)

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