卌

See also: ᚓ

卌 U+534C, 卌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534C ← 卋 [U+534B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卍 → [U+534D]

Translingual

Han character

卌 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT) or 難難廿廿 (XXTT), four-corner 4400₀, composition ⿻卄〢(GHJ) or ⿻卅丨(TKV) or ⿻川十(TKV) or ⿻廾〢(TKV))

Derived characters

• 𩆕, 無, 舞, 橆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2712
• Dae Jaweon: page 355, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 60, character 2
• Unihan data for U+534C

Chinese

trad.		卌
simp. #		卌
alternative forms		𠦜 𠦌

Chinese cardinal numbers

<  39	40	41  >
Cardinal : 卌 (xì)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卌
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script

十 (shí, “10”), repeated four times.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
• Eastern Min (BUC): siék
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siap / siak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siab⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: se³
    • Yale: se
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
    • Tâi-lô: siap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siab
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/

Note: siak - only for 卌九.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siab⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siap
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siap̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: sip

Rime
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	緝 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Öffnen Sie
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	先立切
Baxter	sip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sip̚/
Li Rong	/siəp̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sap1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sub/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
No.	13425
Phonetic component	卌
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	𩎕
Old Chinese	/*sub/

Definitions

卌

1. forty

Synonyms

• 四十 (sìshí)

Compounds

• 上卌𣍐攝／上卌𫧃摄
• 卌九日
• 卌九日烏／卌九日乌
• 卌工

 

References

• “Entry #1388”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji

卌

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (archaic) forty

Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
• Kun: よんじゅう (yonjū)

Korean

Hanja

卌 (eumhun 마흔 십 (maheun sip))
卌 (eumhun 사십 십 (sasip sip))

1. forty; fortieth

Vietnamese

Han character

卌: Hán Nôm readings: tấp

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