歙

歙	U+6B59, 歙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B59

← 歘
[U+6B58]

CJK Unified Ideographs

歚 →
[U+6B5A]

Translingual

Han character

歙 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓人 (OMNO), four-corner 8718₂, composition ⿰翕欠)

to suck

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 572, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16204
Dae Jaweon: page 960, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2151, character 11
Unihan data for U+6B59

Chinese

trad.		歙
simp. ^#		歙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	quːm, qromʔ, qɯːm, qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	ɡuːmʔ, kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	tuːb, tʰoːb
褡	tuːb, toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	tuːb, tʰoːb
榙	tkuːb, ɡuːb
佮	tkʰuːb, kuːb, quːb, quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	kuːb, ɡuːb
郃	kuːb, ɡuːb
匌	kuːb, kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	kuːb, kruːb
韐	kuːb, kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	quːb, quːb
欱	qʰuːb, qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	kruːb, kob, *ɡob
袷	kruːb, ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	qʰjob, qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī, xié (xi¹, xie²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kap¹
Eastern Min (BUC): hék
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hih⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hip
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷shiq

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/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xié
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sié
  - Wade–Giles: hsieh²
  - Yale: syé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
  - Palladius: се (se)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kap¹
  - Yale: kāp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kap⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: keb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐp̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hék
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɛiʔ²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hip
  - Tâi-lô: hip
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hib
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hip̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hip̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hip̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hip̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hip̚³²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷shiq
  - MiniDict: shih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴xiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕiɪʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: xip

Rime
Character	歙
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許及切
Baxter	xip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjip̚/
Li Rong	/xjəp̚/
Wang Li	/xĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hap¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)[ə]p/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰrub/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ xip ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)[ə]p/
English	contract (v.)
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	歙
Reading #	2/2
No.	5003
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	吸
Old Chinese	/*qʰrub/

Definitions

歙

inhale
diminish, curb; close, converge. ("收斂、閉合")
harmonizing, stabilizing (in 歙然: "和洽、安定")

Compounds

歙張 / 歙张
歙歙
歙漆阿膠 / 歙漆阿胶
歙硯 / 歙砚
歙肩
歙赩

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shè (she⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sip³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seh⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shè
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shè
  - Wade–Giles: shê⁴
  - Yale: shè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheh
  - Palladius: шэ (šɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sip³
  - Yale: sip
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sip⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: xib³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːp̚³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seh⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seh⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛʔ²/

Middle Chinese: syep

Rime
Character	歙
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	葉 (155)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書涉切
Baxter	syep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiap̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiɛp̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭɛp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sip³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qʰjob/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	歙
Reading #	1/2
No.	4996
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	攝
Old Chinese	/*qʰjob/

Definitions

歙

(～縣) She County (a county of Huangshan, Anhui, China)

References

“歙”, 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–
William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 189.
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “歙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

歙

(Hyōgai kanji)

come together
meet
put away
store

Readings

Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}、しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きふ (kifu, historical)}、しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
Kun: すう (suu, 歙う)

Korean

Hanja

歙 (eum 흡 (heup))

to suck

Vietnamese

Han character

歙: Hán Nôm readings: hấp, sợ, thiệp

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