裟

裟 U+88DF, 裟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88DF ← 裞 [U+88DE] CJK Unified Ideographs 裠 → [U+88E0]

Translingual

Han character

裟 (radical 145 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水竹卜竹女 (EHYHV), four-corner 3973₂, composition ⿱沙衣)

1. a cassock or robe of a monk

References

• KangXi: page 1118, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34325
• Dae Jaweon: page 1584, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3092, character 6
• Unihan data for U+88DF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		裟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (沙) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
硰	*ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl
娑	*saːl, *saːlʔ
挱	*saːl, *sraːl
挲	*saːl
桫	*saːl
渻	*saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
沙	*sraːl, *sraːls
紗	*sraːl
砂	*sraːl
鯊	*sraːl
裟	*sraːl
桬	*sraːl
髿	*sraːl, *soːl
魦	*sraːl, *soːl
莎	*soːl
莏	*soːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shā (sha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shā
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: sha¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sha
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂa̠⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saa¹
    • Yale: sā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʃˠa/▼

Rime
Character	裟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨ/
Li Rong	/ʃa/
Wang Li	/ʃa/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shā

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sraːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	裟
Reading #	1/1
No.	11029
Phonetic component	沙
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鯊
Old Chinese	/*sraːl/
Notes	梵譯kasāya，原從毛，葛洪字苑改從衣

Definitions

裟

1. Only used in 袈裟 (jiāshā).

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Japanese

Kanji

裟

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: しゃ (sha)
• Kan’on: さ (sa)

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Korean

Hanja

裟 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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