莝

莝 U+839D, 莝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-839D ← 莜 [U+839C] CJK Unified Ideographs 莞 → [U+839E]

Translingual

Han character

莝 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 廿人人土 (TOOG) or 難廿人人土 (XTOOG), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱艹坐)

1. to chop straw fine for animals

Derived characters

• 遳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31062
• Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3222, character 3
• Unihan data for U+839D

Chinese

trad.		莝
simp. #		莝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
脞	*sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳	*ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	*sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	*zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuò (cuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): co³ / zo⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuò
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻo⁴
    • Yale: tswò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuoh
    • Palladius: цо (co)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: co³ / zo⁶
    • Yale: cho / joh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tso³ / dzo⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: co³ / zo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔː³³/, /t͡sɔː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwaH

Rime
Character	莝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	麤卧切
Baxter	tshwaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwaH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuɑH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	co3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莝
Reading #	1/1
No.	18058
Phonetic component	坐
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sʰoːls/

Definitions

莝

1. (obsolete) cut into fine pieces, hash, mince

   必先膊乾其肉，乃後莝之，雜以梁麴及鹽，漬以美酒，塗置甀中：百日則成矣。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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   必先膊干其肉，乃后莝之，杂以梁曲及盐，渍以美酒，涂置甀中：百日则成矣。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

   From: Zheng Xuan (鄭玄) (late 2nd century CE (Eastern Han)), Yili zhushu 儀禮注疏 [Rites and Ceremonies with commentary and subcommentary]

   Bì xiān bó qián qí ròu, nǎi hòu cuò zhī, zá yǐ liáng qū jí yán, zì yǐ měijiǔ, tú zhì zhuì zhōng: bǎi rì zé chéng yǐ. [Pinyin]

   You must first dry your meat and then hash it, before mixing it with yeast and salt, sprinkling it with fine wine, and mashing it into a jar: after 100 days it will be complete.

Japanese

Kanji

莝

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Nugget (キュウ)
2. To chop straw fine for animals (きりわら)

Readings

• On (unclassified): さ (sa)
• Kun: きりわら (kiriwara)

Korean

Hanja

莝 (eum 좌 (jwa))

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