縖

縖	U+7E16, 縖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E16

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[U+7E15]

CJK Unified Ideographs

縗 →
[U+7E17]

Translingual

Han character

縖 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火十手口 (VFJQR), four-corner 2396₁, composition ⿰糹害)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 933, character 35
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27759
Dae Jaweon: page 1372, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3440, character 4
Unihan data for U+7E16

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
轄	kʰaːds, ɡraːd
害	*ɡaːds
犗	*kraːds
幰	*qʰanʔ
攇	*qʰanʔ
憲	*hŋans
瀗	*qʰans
割	*kaːd
磍	kreːd, kʰraːd
瞎	*qʰraːd
鎋	*ɡraːd
鶷	*ɡraːd
縖	*ɡraːd
豁	*qʰʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡraːd): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 害 (OC *ɡaːds)

Etymology 1

trad.		縖
simp.		𬘻

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siá
  - Wade–Giles: hsia²
  - Yale: syá
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
  - Palladius: ся (sja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hat⁶
  - Yale: haht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/

Middle Chinese: haet

Rime
Character	縖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	黠 (71)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡瞎切
Baxter	haet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠat̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚat̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨt̚/
Li Rong	/ɣat̚/
Wang Li	/ɣat̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣăt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haat⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡraːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縖
Reading #	1/1
No.	4858
Phonetic component	害
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鎋
Old Chinese	/*ɡraːd/

Definitions

縖

(obsolete, rare) to bind; to wrap around

Etymology 2

trad.		縖
simp.		𬘻
alternative forms		霞爻嗄束

Pronunciation

Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hâ / ha̍h

(Teochew, Peng'im): ha⁵

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâ
  - Tâi-lô: hâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haa
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /ha²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ha²³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍h
  - Tâi-lô: ha̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hah
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /haʔ¹²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ha⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hâ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ha⁵⁵/

Definitions

縖

(Southern Min) to fasten; to tie; to gird; to wrap around

References

“縖”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.