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U+6954, 楔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6954

[U+6953]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6955]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 75, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木手竹大 (DQHK), four-corner 47934, composition )

  1. wedge
  2. gatepost
  3. foreword

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 539, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15131
  • Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1242, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6954

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • siat - literary;
  • soeh/seh - vernacular (“to wedge; to stuff in; wedge; to bribe”).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (16)
Final () (75) (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II IV
Fanqie
Baxter keat set
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛt̚/ /set̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæt̚/ /set̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kæt̚/ /sɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨt̚/ /sɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/kɛt̚/ /set̚/
Wang
Li
/kæt̚/ /siet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kat̚/ /siet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jia xie
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaat3 sit3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiē
Middle
Chinese
‹ set ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.qˁet/
English wedge put in teeth of corpse

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6498 6504
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːd/ /*sqʰeːd/

Definitions[edit]

  1. wedge; peg
  2. (dialectal) to drive; to wedge (a wedge, nail, etc.)
  3. (Hokkien) to stuff in; to plug in; to fill in
  4. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) wedge; peg; stopper
  5. (Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to bribe
Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

  1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 𤗈 (sip3)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Kanji in this term
くさび
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
 くさび on Japanese Wikipedia

Noun[edit]

(くさび) (kusabi

  1. a wedge (simple machine)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eum (seol))

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: khế

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