狹

See also: 狭

Translingual

Japanese	狭
Simplified	狭
Traditional	狹

Han character

狹 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹大人人 (KHKOO), four-corner 4423₈, composition ⿰犭夾)

Descendants

• 狭

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 711, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20428
• Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1348, character 4
• Unihan data for U+72F9

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Chinese

trad.		狹
simp.		狭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瘞	*qrebs
瘱	*qeːbs
脥	*kʰemʔ
浹	*skaːb, *skeːb
挾	*skaːb, *ɡeːb
夾	*kreːb
郟	*kreːb
筴	*sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
裌	*kreːb
鵊	*kreːb
狹	*ɡreːb
峽	*ɡreːb
硤	*ɡreːb
陜	*ɡreːb
陿	*ɡreːb
翜	*sraːb, *srɯːb
梜	*kraːb, *keːb
頰	*keːb
莢	*keːb
鋏	*keːb
蛺	*keːb
唊	*keːb
悏	*kʰeːb
匧	*kʰeːb
愜	*kʰeːb
篋	*kʰeːb
俠	*ɡeːb
綊	*ɡeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːb) : semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 夾 (OC *kreːb) – narrow-minded, like a dog.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haap⁶ / gip⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hiab⁶
• Northern Min (KCR): hă
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ha̍p / hia̍p / oe̍h / e̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hiab⁸ / hiêb⁸ / oih⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siá
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²
    • Yale: syá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
    • Palladius: ся (sja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haap⁶ / gip⁶
    • Yale: haahp / gihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haap⁹ / gip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hab⁶ / gib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːp̚²/, /kiːp̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hiab⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /hiap̚⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xa²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍p
    • Tâi-lô: ha̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hap
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hap̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hia̍p
    • Tâi-lô: hia̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiap
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hiap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiap̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oe̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ue̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oeh
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /ueʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ueʔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍h
    • Tâi-lô: e̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: eh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /eʔ¹²¹/

Note:

• ha̍p - literary;
• hia̍p/oe̍h/e̍h - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hiab⁸ / hiêb⁸ / oih⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hia̍p / hie̍p / o̍ih
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiap̚⁴/, /hiep̚⁴/, /oiʔ⁴/

Note:

• hiab8/hiêb8 - literary (hiêb8 - Chaozhou);
• oih8 - vernacular.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 狹
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕia³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕia²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕia⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ɕia⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕia⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕia²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕia⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕia⁵³/ /t͡ɕʰia¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕia⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕia²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕia³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕia²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕia̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕiɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiaʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/ɕiʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ɕia³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦaʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦaʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦiɑʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ɦa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xa²²/
	Tunxi	/xɔ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/xɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/haʔ²/
Hakka	Meixian	/hap̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/hiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hap̚³/
	Nanning	/hap̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/hap̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hap̚⁵/ /ueʔ⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/hieʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xa²⁴/ /kiɛ⁴²/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hiap̚⁵/ /oiʔ⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hiap̚³/ /kiap̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: heap

Rime
Character	狹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	洽 (152)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	侯夾切
Baxter	heap
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠɛp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚæp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəɨp̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɐp̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣăp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haap6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-kˤ<r>ep/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡreːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛp ›
Old Chinese	/*N-kˁ<r>ep/
English	narrow
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	狹
Reading #	1/1
No.	5896
Phonetic component	夾
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	洽
Old Chinese	/*ɡreːb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 狹

1. narrow; limited
2. narrow-minded

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Japanese

Shinjitai	狭
Kyūjitai	狹

Kanji

狹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 狭)

1. narrow
2. contract
3. reduce
4. tight
5. limited

Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō); こう (kō)
• Kun: せまい (semai, 狹い); せばめる (sebameru, 狹める)

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Korean

Hanja

狹 • (hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune–Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 狹 (hẹp)

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