㩄

㩄 U+3A44, 㩄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3A44 ← 㩃 [U+3A43] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 㩅 → [U+3A45]

Translingual

Han character

㩄 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手山田心 (QUWP), composition ⿰扌崽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 454, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1958, character 4
• Unihan data for U+3A44

Chinese

simp. and trad.		㩄

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 崽 (OC *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː, *srɯː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāi (shai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saai¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): sai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shai
    • Wade–Giles: shai¹
    • Yale: shāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shai
    • Palladius: шай (šaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saai¹
    • Yale: sāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sai¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sai
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sai³³/

Definitions

㩄

1. ^† to get scattered and lost
2. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 嘥 (saai¹, “to waste”)