黠

黠 U+9EE0, 黠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EE0 ← 黟 [U+9EDF] CJK Unified Ideographs 黡 → [U+9EE1]

Translingual

Han character

黠 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+6, 18 strokes, cangjie input 田火土口 (WFGR), four-corner 6436₁, composition ⿰黑吉)

1. sly, cunning, shrewd
2. artful

Derived characters

• 䕸, 𥷫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1520, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48097
• Dae Jaweon: page 2054, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4748, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9EE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		黠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 黠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
秸	*kriːl, *kriːd
髻	*kiːds
夡	*kʰids
鴶	*kriːd
袺	*kriːd, *kiːd
頡	*kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼	*kʰriːd
硈	*kʰriːd
咭	*kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠	*ɡriːd
聐	*ŋreːd
趌	*ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結	*kiːd
拮	*kiːd, *klid
桔	*kiːd
狤	*kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷	*qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭	*ɡiːd
翓	*ɡiːd
纈	*ɡiːd
吉	*klid
郆	*kid
詰	*kʰid
蛣	*kʰid
佶	*ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚	*ɡrid
姞	*ɡrid
欯	*qʰlid
恄	*qʰlid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶, waat⁶, hat¹, kit³

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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: hat⁶, waat⁶, hat¹, kit³
    • Yale: haht, waaht, hāt, kit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹, waat⁹, hat⁷, kit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶, wad⁶, hed¹, kid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/, /waːt̚²/, /hɐt̚⁵/, /kʰiːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: heat

Rime
Character	黠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	山 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡八切
Baxter	heat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ɣæt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤri[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡriːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	黠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛt ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁri[t]/
English	shrewd
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	黠
Reading #	1/1
No.	5678
Phonetic component	吉
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	黠
Old Chinese	/*ɡriːd/

Definitions

黠

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Compounds

• 奸黠
• 小黠大痴
• 惠黠
• 慧黠 (huìxiá)
• 捷黠
• 桀黠
• 汙吏黠胥／污吏黠胥
• 狡黠 (jiǎoxiá)
• 鬼黠 (guǐxiá)
• 黠吏 (xiálì)
• 黠慧 (xiáhuì)

 

References

• “黠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

黠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: げち (gechi)
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu)
• Kun: さとい (satoi, 黠い); わるがしこい (warugashikoi, 黠い)

Compounds

• 黠(かっ)獪(かい) (kakkai)
• 黠(かっ)慧(けい) (kakkei)
• 黠(かっ)智(ち) (katchi)
• 黠(かつ)奴(ど) (katsudo)
• 黠(かつ)虜(りょ) (katsuryo)
• 軽(けい)黠(かつ) (keikatsu)
• 慧(けい)黠(かつ) (keikatsu)
• 傑(けっ)黠(かつ), 桀(けっ)黠(かつ) (kekkatsu)
• 佼(こう)黠(かつ), 狡(こう)黠(かつ) (kōkatsu)
• 老(ろう)黠(かつ) (rōkatsu)

 

Korean

Hanja

黠 • (hil) (hangeul 힐, revised hil, McCune–Reischauer hil, Yale hil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黠: Hán Nôm readings: hiệt

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