桸

桸 U+6878, 桸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6878 ← 桷 [U+6877] CJK Unified Ideographs 桹 → [U+6879]

Translingual

Han character

桸 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木大大月 (DKKB), four-corner 4492₇, composition ⿰木希)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 527, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14814
• Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1217, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6878

Chinese

simp. and trad.		桸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
桸	*hral, *hlɯl
郗	*l̥ʰɯl
絺	*l̥ʰɯl
脪	*l̥ʰɯl, *hrɯnʔ, *hlɯns
瓻	*l̥ʰɯl
希	*hlɯl
晞	*hlɯl
莃	*hlɯl
鵗	*hlɯl
稀	*hlɯl
睎	*hlɯl
豨	*hlɯl, *hlɯlʔ
悕	*hlɯl
俙	*hlɯl, *hlɯlʔ
欷	*hlɯl, *hlɯls
浠	*hlɯl
唏	*hlɯlʔ, *hlɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hral, *hlɯl) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 希 (OC *hlɯl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hia

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hia
    • Tâi-lô: hia
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiaf
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hia⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xje, xj+j

Rime
Character	桸	桸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	支 (13)	微 (20)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	許羈切	香衣切
Baxter	xje	xj+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇ/	/hɨi/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛ/	/hɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɛ/	/xiəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjiə̆/	/hɨj/
Li Rong	/xje/	/xiəi/
Wang Li	/xǐe/	/xĭəi/
Bernard Karlgren	/xie̯/	/xe̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei1	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hral/, /*hlɯl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	桸	桸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13245	13257
Phonetic component	希	希
Rime group	歌	微
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	犧	希
Old Chinese	/*hral/	/*hlɯl/

Definitions

桸

1. (dialectal, Northern Min, Southern Min) a ladle

Compounds

• 鱟桸／鲎桸 (hāu-hia) (Min Nan)

 

References

• “Entry #7465”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.