瑕

Translingual

Han character

瑕 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土口尸水 (MGRSE), four-corner 1714₇, composition ⿰王叚)

1. flaw in gem
2. fault, defect

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 737, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1148, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1128, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7455

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瑕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瑕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
葭	*kraː
麚	*kraː
瘕	*kraː, *kraːʔ
豭	*kraː
貑	*kraː
猳	*kraː
犌	*kraː
假	*kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏	*kraːʔ
婽	*kraːʔ
椵	*kraːʔ
叚	*kraːʔ
蝦	*qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆	*qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞	*ɡraː
遐	*ɡraː
瑕	*ɡraː
鰕	*ɡraː
碬	*ɡraː
蕸	*ɡraː
赮	*ɡraː
鍜	*ɡraː
騢	*ɡraː
暇	*ɡraːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haa⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hâ

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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: haa⁴
    • Yale: hàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ha⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâ
    • Tâi-lô: hâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ha²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ha²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ha¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ha²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ha²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hae

Rime
Character	瑕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡加切
Baxter	hae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣa/
Wang Li	/ɣa/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haa4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瑕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hæ ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁra/
English	flaw, blemish
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	瑕
Reading #	1/1
No.	5967
Phonetic component	叚
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遐
Old Chinese	/*ɡraː/
Notes	叚轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瑕

1. flaw; blemish

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Japanese

Kanji

瑕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. flaw, blemish

Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)
• Kun: きず (kizu, 瑕); なんぞ (nanzo, 瑕ぞ)

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Korean

Hanja

瑕 • (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune–Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 瑕 (hà)

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