撤

See also: 撒

Translingual

Han character

撤 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+11 in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), 手+12 in Chinese (mainland China, Hong Kong), Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 手卜月大 (QYBK) or 手大月大 (QKBK), four-corner 5804₀, composition ⿲扌育攵)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 455, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12726
• Dae Jaweon: page 804, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1962, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64A4

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Chinese

trad.		撤
simp. #		撤
alternative forms		𢪃 second round simplified

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
徹	*tʰed
撤	*tʰed, *ded
澈	*ded
轍	*ded

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰed, *ded) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 徹 (OC *tʰed) (彳 removed from phonetic) – to remove by hand.

Etymology

Cognate with 徹 (OC *tʰed, “to remove”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chè (che⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cit³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thiat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tiêg⁴ / tiag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chè
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chè
    • Wade–Giles: chʻê⁴
    • Yale: chè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cheh
    • Palladius: чэ (čɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cit³
    • Yale: chit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: qid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiat
    • Tâi-lô: thiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɛt̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiêg⁴ / tiag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiek / thiak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiek̚²/, /tʰiak̚²/

Note:

• tiêg4 - Chaozhou;
• tiag4 - Shantou.

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• Middle Chinese: drjet, trhjet

Rime
Character	撤	撤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	薛 (83)	薛 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	直列切	丑列切
Baxter	drjet	trhjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiᴇt̚/	/ʈʰˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiɛt̚/	/ʈʰᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiæt̚/	/ȶʰiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖiat̚/	/ʈʰiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȡjɛt̚/	/ȶʰjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȡĭɛt̚/	/ȶʰĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ɛt̚/	/ȶʰi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhé	che
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zit6	cit3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-tʰret/, /*tʰret/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰed/, /*ded/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	撤	撤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chè	chè
Middle Chinese	‹ drjet ›	‹ trhjet ›
Old Chinese	/*m-tʰret/	/*tʰret/
English	remove, take away	remove, take away
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	撤	撤
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1320	1321
Phonetic component	徹	徹
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	屮	轍
Old Chinese	/*tʰed/	/*ded/
Notes		徹轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 撤

1. to take away; to remove; to clear away
2. to withdraw; to retreat

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

撤

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: てち (techi)
• Kan-on: てつ (tetsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: すてる (suteru, 撤てる); ひらく (hiraku)

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Korean

Hanja

撤 • (cheol) (hangeul 철, revised cheol, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏl, Yale chel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 撤 (triệt, trẹt, trê, trệt, trịt)

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