汏

汏	U+6C4F, 汏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C4F

← 汎
[U+6C4E]

CJK Unified Ideographs

汐 →
[U+6C50]

Translingual

Han character

汏 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水大 (EK), four-corner 3413₀, composition ⿰氵大)

(dialect) to wash

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 605, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17121
Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1552, character 1
Unihan data for U+6C4F

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		汏

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-labs (“wave”) (provisional); cognate with Tibetan རླབས (rlabs) (STEDT; Bodman, 1980; Schuessler, 2007).

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
馱	daːl, daːds
大	daːds, daːds
忕	tʰaːds, daːds, *djads
太	*tʰaːds
汰	*tʰaːds
汏	daːds, tʰaːd
軑	daːds, deːds
釱	daːds, deːds
达	*tʰeːds
杕	*deːds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːds, *tʰaːd): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dài, dà (dai⁴, da⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄞˋ, ㄉㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thōa
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶da
- (Jinhua): ⁶da

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dài
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dài
  - Wade–Giles: tai⁴
  - Yale: dài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: day
  - Palladius: дай (daj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dà
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dà
  - Wade–Giles: ta⁴
  - Yale: dà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dah
  - Palladius: да (da)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: daai⁶
  - Yale: daaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thōa
  - Tâi-lô: thuā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: toa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰua²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰua⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰua²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰua³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰua³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁶da
  - MiniDict: da^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³da
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /da²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /dɑ²³¹/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ⁶da
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /dɑ¹⁴/

Middle Chinese: dajH, that

Rime
Character	汏	汏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	曷 (63)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒蓋切	他達切
Baxter	dajH	that
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daj^H/	/tʰat̚/
Li Rong	/dɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Wang Li	/dɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑi^H/	/tʰɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	ta
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daai⁶	taat³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*daːds/, /*tʰaːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	汏	汏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1940	1949
Phonetic component	大	大
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	大	闥
Old Chinese	/*daːds/	/*tʰaːd/

Definitions

汏

(Wu, including Shanghainese and Suzhounese) to rinse; to wash
汏手 [Shanghainese] ― ⁶da ⁵seu [Wugniu] ― to wash one's hands
great wave
- 乘舲船余上沅兮，齊吳榜以擊汏。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  乘舲船余上沅兮，齐吴榜以击汏。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE
  Chéng língchuán yú shàng Yuán xī, qí Wúbàng yǐ jī dài. [Pinyin]
  Boarding a small boat on the Yuan I float upstream; long oars of Wu strike the waves in unison.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 洗 (“to wash”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		洗
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	洗
	Taiwan	洗
	Singapore	洗
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	洗
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	洗
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	洗
	Wuhan	洗
	Guilin	洗
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	洗
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	洗
Cantonese	Guangzhou	洗
	Hong Kong	洗
	Yangjiang	洗
	Singapore (Guangfu)	洗
Gan	Nanchang	洗
Hakka	Meixian	洗
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	洗
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	洗
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	洗
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	洗
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	洗
Jin	Taiyuan	洗
Northern Min	Jian'ou	洗
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	洗
Southern Min	Xiamen	洗
	Singapore (Hokkien)	洗
	Chaozhou	洗
	Singapore (Teochew)	洗
	Singapore (Hainanese)	洗
Wu	Shanghai	汏
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	汏, 淨
	Shanghai (Shuangcaodun, Baoshan)	汏
	Shanghai (Luodian, Baoshan)	汏
	Suzhou	汏
	Suzhou (Lili, Wujiang)	汏
	Suzhou (Shengze, Wujiang)	汏
	Wuxi	汏
	Changshu	汏
	Kunshan	汏
	Jiaxing	汏
	Changzhou	洗, 揩, 汏
	Liyang	洗
	Changzhou (Jintan)	洗
	Yixing	汏
	Danyang	洗
	Danyang (Tongjiaqiao)	洗
	Jingjiang	洗
	Jiangyin	代, 汏 rare
	Huzhou (Shuanglin)	汏
	Hangzhou	汏, 洗
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	汏
	Zhuji (Wangjiajing)	洗
	Shengzhou (Taiping)	洗
	Ningbo	⿰氵丈
	Yuyao	汏
	Taizhou (Huangyan)	洗, 汏
	Wenzhou	洗, 盪
	Quzhou	洗, 汏 rare
	Jinhua	洗, 汏
	Yongkang	洗
Xiang	Changsha	洗
Xiang	Shuangfeng	洗

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 汏 – see 汰 (“to rinse; to wash away; to discard; to eliminate through competition or selection; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 汰).

References

Japanese

Kanji

汏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): たい (tai)、だい (dai)、たつ (tatsu)、たち (tachi)
Kun: あるう (aruu)

Korean

Hanja

汏 (eum 대 (dae))

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Zhuang

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːds, *tʰaːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds)

Noun

汏

Sawndip form of dah (“river”)