檨

檨 U+6AA8, 檨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AA8 ← 檧 [U+6AA7] CJK Unified Ideographs 檩 → [U+6AA9]

Translingual

Han character

檨 (radical 75 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木廿土人 (DTGO), four-corner 4898₂, composition ⿰木羨 or ⿰木羡)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 558, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15707
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1295, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6AA8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		檨
alt. forms		榱

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood; tree”) + phonetic 羨 (OC *lel, *ljans, *lans).

Etymology

An Austroasiatic substrate loanword; compare Khmer ស្វាយ (svaay, “mango”), Vietnamese xoài (“mango”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shē (she¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹, se¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sôn
• Min Dong (BUC): suông
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): soāiⁿ / soān / soǎiⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): suain⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shē
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜ
    • Wade-Giles: shê¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: she
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ce¹, se¹
    • Yale: chē, sē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹, se¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cé¹, sé¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵/, /sɛː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: son´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: son¹
    • IPA: /son²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: suông
    • IPA ^(key): /suɔŋ²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soāiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: suāinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: svoai
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kinmen): /suãi²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Taipei): /suãi³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soān
    • Tâi-lô: suān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /suan⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Lukang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soǎiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: suǎinn
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: suain⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suāiⁿ
    • IPA ^(key): /sũãĩ¹¹/

Definitions

檨

1. (Hakka, Min) mango

Compounds

• 土檨仔
• 木檨
• 檨仔
• 檨仔青

• 牛𡳞脬檨
• 生檨仔
• 番檨
• 肉檨

• 臺灣檨／台湾檨
• 蘋果檨／苹果檨
• 香檨

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Japanese

Kanji

檨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mango

Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃ (sha)
• Kun: あんら (anra), あんもら (anmora), あんまら (anmara), まんごう (mangō)