些

些 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜心一一 (YPMM), four-corner 2110₁, composition ⿱此二)

• 㾚

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 87, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 268
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1441, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4E9B

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些

1. some; a few; a little; a bit (an indefinite amount)

   吃些肉  ―  chī xiē ròu  ―  to eat some meat

   一些都沒有／一些都没有  ―  yī xiē dōu méiyǒu  ―  not even a bit

2. (used after adjectives and certain verbs) a bit; a bit more

   走快些  ―  zǒu kuài xiē  ―  to walk a little faster

3. (Southwestern Mandarin) Used after a noun to indicate plural number.

   書些／书些 [Sichuanese]  ―  su¹ xi¹ [Sichuanese Pinyin]  ―  books

4. rather; somewhat
5. (archaic) A modal particle.

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些

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) A modal particle.

   • 南枝纔放兩三花，雪裏吟香弄粉些。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     南枝才放两三花，雪里吟香弄粉些。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. early 1200s, 白玉蟾,《早春》

     Nán zhī cái fàng liǎng-sān huā, xuě lǐ yín xiāng nòng fěn suò. [Pinyin]

     The southern twigs are just beginning to have a few flowers;
     In the snow, I enjoy their scent and appreciate their colors.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, synecdochically) fu (poetry)
3. (historical dictionaries only) can; be able to
4. (historical dictionaries only) what
5. (historical dictionaries only) this

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些

1. (historical dictionaries only) to decrease

些

1. only used in 麼些 / 么些 (Mósuō, “Mosuo”).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00056
• 諸橋轍次 (Morohashi Tetsuji), chief ed. 大漢和辞典 (Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, “Comprehensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary”). 13 vols. 1955–1960. Revised and enlarged ed. 1984–1986. Tokyo: Taishukan.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. a few, a little; some
2. sometimes

• Go-on: さ (sa)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kun: いささか (isasaka, 些か)

些 (eum 사 (sa))

1. little

些: Hán Việt readings: ta^[1][2][3]
些: Nôm readings: ta^{[2][3][4][5][6]}, tá^[7]

1. chữ Hán form of ta (“I; me; we; us”)

   𠊚些吶 ― người ta nói ― it is said that

   羅𧵑衆些 ― là của chúng ta ― it's ours; it's our possession (something belonging to everybody involved)

   嬰些 ― anh ta ― our brother; our man

   𠄩些 ― hai ta ― two of us; both of us

   𠀧些 ― ba ta ― three of us

   • 1820, 阮攸 [Nguyễn Du], compiled by Liễu Văn Đường, 傳翹 [Truyện Kiều], published 1866, line 1:

     𤾓(trăm)𢆥(năm)𥪞(trong)揆(cõi)𠊛(người)些(ta)

     A hundred years in the realm of humanity