恰

恰 U+6070, 恰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6070 ← 息 [U+606F] CJK Unified Ideographs 恱 → [U+6071]

Translingual

Han character

恰 (radical 61 心+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心人一口 (POMR), four-corner 9806₁, composition ⿰忄合)

1. just, exactly, precisely
2. proper

References

• KangXi: page 386, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10603
• Dae Jaweon: page 718, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2297, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6070

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		恰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 恰
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (合) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qià (qia⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hap¹, aam¹
• Min Nan (POJ): khap

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qià
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ia⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiah
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯a̠⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hap¹, aam¹
    • Yale: hāp, āam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hap⁷, aam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: heb¹, am¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐp̚⁵/, /ɑːm⁵⁵/

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

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khap
    • Tâi-lô: khap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qab
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰap̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰap̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰap̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰap̚³²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 恰
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕʰia⁵¹/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕʰia⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕʰiɑ⁵³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕʰia²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕʰia⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕʰia⁵³/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕʰia⁵³/
	Xining	/t͡ɕʰia⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕʰia¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕʰia⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕʰia²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰia²¹³/ ～當 /kʰa²¹³/ ～～
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕʰia³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰia²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰia̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕʰiɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕʰiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕʰiaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕʰiʌʔ¹³/ /kʰʌʔ¹³/ ～好
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/kʰaʔ⁵/ /t͡ɕʰiaʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕʰiɑʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕʰiɑʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/kʰa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/kʰaʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/kʰɔ⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰia²⁴/ /kʰa²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/kʰɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/kʰaʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰap̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/kʰɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hɐp̚⁵/
	Nanning	/hip̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/hɐp̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kʰap̚³²/ /kʰaʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kʰɑʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kʰia²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰap̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡sap̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰˠɛp̚/▼

Rime
Character	恰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	洽 (152)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	苦洽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠɛp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚæp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəɨp̚/
Li Rong	/kʰɐp̚/
Wang Li	/kʰɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qia

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰruːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	恰
Reading #	1/1
No.	4989
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	恰
Old Chinese	/*kʰruːb/

Definitions

恰

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Compounds

• 不恰好
• 半恰
• 恰不道
• 恰似
• 恰便似
• 恰克圖／恰克图

• 恰到好處／恰到好处 (qiàdàohǎochù)
• 恰則／恰则
• 恰好 (qiàhǎo)
• 恰如 (qiàrú)
• 恰如其分 (qiàrúqífèn)
• 恰巧 (qiàqiǎo)

• 恰恰 (qiàqià)
• 恰正
• 恰當／恰当 (qiàdàng)
• 恰纔／恰才 (qiàcái)
• 恰限
• 洽恰

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Japanese

Kanji

恰

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō), かつ (katsu)
• Kun: あたかも (atakamo)

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Korean

Hanja

恰 • (heup) (hangeul 흡, revised heup, McCune-Reischauer hŭp, Yale hup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: kháp

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