絜

Translingual

Han character

絜 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手竹女戈火 (QHVIF), four-corner 5790₃, composition ⿱㓞糸)

1. a marking line
2. ascertain, assess
3. measure

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 922, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27419
• Dae Jaweon: page 1357, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3389, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7D5C

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Chinese

trad.		絜
simp. #		絜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
夆	*pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
丯	*kreːds
瘛	*kʰjeds, *ɡeːds, *kʰjed
觢	*ɡjeds
契	*kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd
栔	*kʰeːds
禊	*ɡeːds
稧	*ɡeːds
楔	*kreːd, *sqʰeːd
葜	*kʰreːd
猰	*qreːd, *kraːd, *kʰeːd
窫	*qreːd
揳	*sqʰeːd
偰	*sqʰeːd
潔	*keːd
絜	*keːd, *ɡeːd
鍥	*keːd, *kʰeːd
挈	*kʰeːd
蛪	*kʰeːd
齧	*ŋeːd
褉	*qʰeːd
喫	*ŋ̊ʰeːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xié, jié (xie², jie²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ, ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): git³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sié
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²
    • Yale: syé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jié
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jié
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²
    • Yale: jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: git³
    • Yale: git
    • Cantonese Pinyin: git⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: gid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: ket, het

Rime
Character	絜	絜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	古屑切	胡結切
Baxter	ket	het
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ket̚/	/ɦet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ket̚/	/ɦet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛt̚/	/ɣɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛt̚/	/ɦɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ket̚/	/ɣet̚/
Wang Li	/kiet̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiet̚/	/ɣiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie	xié
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git3	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːd/, /*ɡeːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	絜	絜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6508	6518
Phonetic component	丯	丯
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	結	纈
Old Chinese	/*keːd/	/*ɡeːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 絜

1. ^† to be clean; to be pure
2. ^† to wash
3. ^† to regulate
4. ^† marking line

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Japanese

Kanji

絜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu), けち (kechi), けい (kei), かつ (katsu)
• Kun: あさ (asa), たば (taba), きよい (kiyoi)

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Korean

Hanja

絜 • (hyeol) (hangeul 혈, revised hyeol, McCune–Reischauer hyŏl, Yale hyel)

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