解

See also: 觧

Translingual

Han character

解 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓月尸竹手 (NBSHQ), four-corner 2725₂, composition ⿰角⿱刀牛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1142, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35067
• Dae Jaweon: page 1608, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3925, character 10
• Unihan data for U+89E3

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Chinese

trad.		解
simp. #		解

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 解
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
薢	*kreː, *kreːʔ, *kreːs
解	*kreːʔ, *kreːs, *ɡreːʔ, *ɡreːs
檞	*kreːʔ
懈	*kreːs
繲	*kreːs
廨	*kreːs
蟹	*ɡreːʔ
獬	*ɡreːʔ
澥	*ɡreːʔ
嶰	*ɡreːʔ
邂	*ɡreːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 角 (“horn”) + 刀 (“knife”) + 牛 (“cow”) – a knife separates a horn from a cow, i.e. “cut up (an ox)”.

Etymology

Three pronunciations are cognate. "To loosen; to disengage" > "idle, lazy, remiss". Cognate with 懈 (OC *kreːs, “lazy, remiss”) and possibly 邂逅 (*ɡreːs ɡroːs, “carefree and happy”).

? Area stem: *C-re. Compare Burmese ဖြေ (hpre, “to untie; to answer; to ease; to absolve”), အဖြေ (a.hpre, “answer, solution; response; explication”); Khmer រាយ (riəy, “to scatter, to be divided up, to separate”), ស្រាយ (sraay, “to untie, to undo, to explain, to solve”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 解

1. to loosen; to unfasten; to untie

   Template:zh-ant

2. to explain
3. to excrete
4. to remove; to eliminate
5. to divide; to break up; to split; to separate
6. to dissolve
7. to solve
8. to understand
9. solution (to a problem)
10. 40th hexagram of the I Ching

Descendants

• Proto-Tai: *keːᶜ
  • Thai: แก้ (gɛ̂ɛ)
  • Lao: ແກ້ (kǣ)
  • Lü: ᦶᦂᧉ (k̇ae²)
  • Shan: ၵႄႈ (kāae)
  • Ahom: 𑜀𑜦𑜧 (kē)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 解

1. to introduce scholar to imperial palace
2. to send under escort

   押解  ―  yājiè  ―  to take away under escort

3. to mortgage
4. to exchange (money)

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiè (xie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haai⁶ / haai⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): hâi
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hǎi / hāi / ě / ē / ōe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siè
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh⁴
    • Yale: syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
    • Palladius: се (se)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haai⁶ / haai⁵
    • Yale: haaih / háaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haai⁶ / haai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hai⁶ / hai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯²²/, /haːi̯¹³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hâi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɑi²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǎi
    • Tâi-lô: hǎi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hai²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hāi
    • Tâi-lô: hāi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hai
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hai²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ě
    • Tâi-lô: ě
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ē
    • Tâi-lô: ē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: e
    • IPA (Xiamen): /e²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōe
    • Tâi-lô: uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oe
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ue²²/

Note:

• hǎi/hāi - literary;
• ě/ē/ōe - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: heaX, heaH

Rime
Character	解	解
Reading #	1/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	佳 (31)	佳 (31)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	胡買切	胡懈切
Baxter	heaX	heaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠɛX/	/ɦˠɛH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚæX/	/ɦᵚæH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣæiX/	/ɣæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨjX/	/ɦaɨjH/
Li Rong	/ɣɛX/	/ɣɛH/
Wang Li	/ɣaiX/	/ɣaiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣaiX/	/ɣaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xià	xià
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haai6	haai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-kˤreʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡreːʔ/, /*ɡreːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	解
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛX ›
Old Chinese	/*N-kˁreʔ/
English	understand
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	解	解
Reading #	3/4	4/4
No.	6483	6488
Phonetic component	解	解
Rime group	支	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	蟹	邂
Old Chinese	/*ɡreːʔ/	/*ɡreːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 解

1. beast's name
2. local authorities
3. skill of acrobatics
4. Ancient placename.
5. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 懈 (xiè, “to relax”).
6. a surname

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hài (hai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hài
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hài
    • Wade–Giles: hai⁴
    • Yale: hài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hay
    • Palladius: хай (xaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 解

1. Used in 解州 (Xièzhōu).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

解

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. solution, untie

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)、げ (ge, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō)
• Kun: とく (toku, 解く, Jōyō)、とける (tokeru, 解ける, Jōyō)、とかす (tokasu, 解かす, Jōyō)、ほどく (hodoku, 解く)、わかる (wakaru, 解る)、さとる (satoru, 解る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 解禁(かいきん) (kaikin)
• 解決(かいけつ) (kaiketsu)
• 解(かい)雇(こ) (kaiko)
• 解散(かいさん) (kaisan)
• 解(かい)釈(しゃく) (kaishaku)
• 解除(かいじょ) (kaijo, “cancel, release”)
• 解消(かいしょう) (kaishō)
• 解職(かいしょく) (kaishoku)
• 解析(かいせき) (kaiseki)
• 解説(かいせつ) (kaisetsu)
• 解体(かいたい) (kaitai)
• 解答(かいとう) (kaitō)

• 解凍(かいとう) (kaitō)
• 解読(かいどく) (kaidoku)
• 解任(かいにん) (kainin)
• 解放(かいほう) (kaihō)
• 解剖(かいぼう) (kaibō, “dissection”)
• 解明(かいめい) (kaimei)
• 解約(かいやく) (kaiyaku)
• 解(げ)脱(だつ) (gedatsu)
• 解(げ)毒(どく) (gedoku)
• 解(げ)熱(ねつ) (genetsu)
• 瓦(が)解(かい) (gakai)

• 曲解(きょっかい) (kyokkai)
• 見解(けんかい) (kenkai)
• 誤(ご)解(かい) (gokai)
• 正解(せいかい) (seikai)
• 難解(なんかい) (nankai)
• 氷解(ひょうかい) (hyōkai)
• 分解(ぶんかい) (bunkai)
• 弁解(べんかい) (benkai)
• 明解(めいかい) (meikai)
• 理(り)解(かい) (rikai)
• 了解(りょうかい) (ryōkai)
• 和(わ)解(かい) (wakai)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
解
かい Grade: 5
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 解 (MC keaX).

Affix

解(かい) • (kai) 

1. divide; split; separate
2. untie; loosen; relax; remove
3. make clear; explain
4. understand; comprehend
5. opinion; explanation; solution

Noun

解(かい) • (kai) 

1. explanation; interpretation
2. (mathematics) solution
3. answer; reply (to a given question or problem)

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Korean

Hanja

解 • (hae, gae) (hangeul 해, 개, revised hae, gae, McCune–Reischauer hae, kae, Yale hay, kay)

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Compounds

• 해약 (解約)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 解 (giải, giãi)

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