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U+67F4, 柴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67F4

[U+67F3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+67F5]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 75, +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜心木 (YPD), four-corner 21904, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 521, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14664
  • Dae Jaweon: page 909, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1197, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+67F4

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms
𡍥

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *zreː) : phonetic (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic .

Etymology 1

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Perhaps related to (OC *zraːl, *zraːlʔ, “to cut trees”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also Khmer ឈើ (chəə, wood) (ibid.).

On the other hand, the Min forms (e.g. Jian'ou châu, Fuzhou chà, Xiamen chhâ) are from (OC *zew).

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • ca2 - vernacular;
  • cor2 - vernacular;
  • cai2 - literary.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou:
    • chhâ - vernacular;
    • chhâi - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰai³⁵/
Harbin /t͡sʰai²⁴/
/ʈ͡ʂʰai²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰai⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ⁴²/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰai⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰai²⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰɛ²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɛ⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰai⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰai²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰai³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰai²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰæ³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰae²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰe̞⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰai¹¹/ 片~
/t͡sʰai⁴⁵/ ~市巷
Pingyao /sæ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰɛ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /za²³/
Suzhou /zɑ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ze̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /za³¹/
Hui Shexian /sa⁴⁴/
Tunxi /sa⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sai¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡zai¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰai²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰai¹¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰeu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰai²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰai²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰai²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰai³⁵/
/t͡sʰa³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰa⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰau³³/ 訓讀
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰa⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sai³¹/
/sa³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (20)
Final () (31)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter dzrea
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʒˠɛ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖ͡ʐᵚæ/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʒæi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖ͡ʐaɨj/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʒɛ/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʒai/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɖ͡ʐʱai/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chái
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
caai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzrɛ ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.dz]ˁre(j)/
English firewood

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 # 1/1
No. 1688
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zreː/
Definitions
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  1. faggot; bundle of sticks bound together (as fuel)
  2. firewood; brushwood; wood
  3. (obsolete) to burn firewood and worship heaven
  4. (dialectal) bony; skinny
  5. (dialectal, of food, particularly meat) tough and dry (as opposed to tender and succulent); stringy; hard to chew
  6. (dialectal) no good; poor; inferior
  7. (Min) slow and inarticulate; dull
  8. a surname
      ―  Chái Róng  ―  Chai Rong (Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou)
Synonyms
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  • (wood):
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2

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Definitions
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  1. to fence; to surround and protect with fence (made of wood)
    鹿  ―  “Lùzhài  ―  Deer Fence, a poem by Wang Wei
  2. to cover; to place something over
  3. to stop; to block; to obstruct
  4. Alternative form of (zhài, defending fence)
  5. Alternative form of (zhài, villa)
Compounds
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Etymology 2

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From English chevron (Leung, 2018).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (Hong Kong) chevron (insignia); stripe (Classifier: c)

Compounds

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Further reading

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. brushwood
  2. firewood

Readings

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  • Go-on: (ze)
  • Kan-on: さい (sai)
  • Kun: しば (shiba, )

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
しば
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(しば) (shiba

  1. brushwood, firewood

Proper noun

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(しば) (Shiba

  1. a surname

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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(si, chae) (hangeul , , revised si, chae, McCune–Reischauer si, ch'ae, Yale si, chay)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: sài, thầy, thài, thày, sầy, xầy

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