邪

Translingual

Etymology

牙 + ⻏

Han character

邪 (radical 163 邑+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一竹弓中 (MHNL), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿰牙⻏)

1. wrong, evil, depraved, vicious, perverse, heterodox
2. unnatural

References

• KangXi: page 1269, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39319
• Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3758, character 4
• Unihan data for U+90AA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		邪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xié, yé (xie², ye²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ, ㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce⁴, je⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): siâ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xié
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsieh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yé
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yeh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ye
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ce⁴, je⁴
    • Yale: chèh, yèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse⁴, je⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː²¹/, /jɛː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâ
    • Tâi-lô: siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaa
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕia²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕia¹³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 邪
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiɛ³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕiɛ²²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕie⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕiə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/siə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/siɛ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕiɛ²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕi⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕie⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕiɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕie³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕie²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕiɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/sie²⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕi⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕie¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕie̞¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕie³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑia²³/
	Suzhou	/ziɑ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiɑ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zei³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰe⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡sʰiɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/sie¹³/
	Xiangtan	/siɒ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/sia¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/siɑ¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰɛ²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰe²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰɛ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sia³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/sia⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sia²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/sia⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/se³¹/ /tia³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jia/, /zia/▼

Rime
Character	邪	邪
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	以遮切	似嗟切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jia/	/zia/
Pan Wuyun	/jia/	/zia/
Shao Rongfen	/ia/	/zia/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jia/	/zia/
Li Rong	/ia/	/zia/
Wang Li	/jĭa/	/zĭa/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯a/	/zi̯a/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yé	xié

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*sə.ɢA/, /*sə.la/, /*ɢ(r)A/, /*[ɢ](r)A/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaː/, /*laː/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邪	邪	邪	邪
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xié	xú	yá	yé
Middle Chinese	‹ zjæ ›	‹ zjo ›	‹ yæ ›	‹ yæ ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.ɢA/	/*sə.la/	/*ɢ(r)A/	/*[ɢ](r)A/
English	awry	walk slowly	琅邪 (name of a mountain in Shāndōng)	(interrogative particle)
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	邪	邪
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14175	14197
Phonetic component	牙	牙
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	衺	邪
Old Chinese	/*ljaː/	/*laː/
Notes		俗作耶

Definitions

邪

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Japanese

Kanji

邪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じゃ (ja) from じや (jya), や (ya) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゃ (sha) (non-Jōyō reading), や (ya) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: や (ya), じや (ja), か (ka), よこしま (yokoshima)

Compounds

• 邪魔 (じゃま) ‎(jama)
• 風邪 (かぜ) ‎(kaze)
• 邪気 (じゃき) ‎(jaki)

Synonyms

• (evil): 奸

Antonyms

• (evil): 正, 義 (righteous)

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Korean

Hanja

邪 • ‎(sa, ya) (hangeul 사, 야, revised sa, ya, McCune-Reischauer sa, ya, Yale sa, ya)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邪 (tà, tá)

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