匝

匝 U+531D, 匝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-531D ← 匜 [U+531C] CJK Unified Ideographs 匞 → [U+531E]

Translingual

Han character

匝 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸中月 (SLB), four-corner 7171₂, composition ⿷匚巾)

Derived characters

• 𠇽 咂 㧜 𣐝 𦚗 砸 鉔 𦭧

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2599
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 82, character 4
• Unihan data for U+531D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匝
alternative forms		帀 迊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
帀	*ʔsuːb
沞	*ʔsuːb
魳	*ʔsuːb
迊	*ʔsuːb
匝	*ʔsuːb
咂	*ʔsuːb
韴	*zuːb
砸	*zaːd

Originally written 帀, see there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zā (za¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap³
• Eastern Min (BUC): cák
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zah⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zab⁴ / zag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zā
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: za
    • Wade–Giles: tsa¹
    • Yale: dzā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tza
    • Palladius: цза (cza)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaap³
    • Yale: jaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːp̚³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cák
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʔ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zah⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zah⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chat
    • Tâi-lô: tsat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sat̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zab⁴ / zag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsap / tsak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sap̚²/, /t͡sak̚²/

Note:

• zab4 - Chaozhou;
• zag4 - Shantou.

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匝
Reading #	1/1
No.	16480
Phonetic component	帀
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuːb/
Notes	帀通行體見六韜， 廣韻集韻左下原作之

Definitions

匝

1. (literary or dialectal) Classifier for circuits or circles.

   • 月明星稀，烏鵲南飛。繞樹三匝，何枝可依？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     月明星稀，乌鹊南飞。绕树三匝，何枝可依？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 曹操 (Cao Cao), 《短歌行》

     Yuèmíngxīngxī, wūquè nán fēi. Rào shù sān zā, hé zhī kě yī? [Pinyin]

     The moon is bright and the stars are few, and southward the crows flew. Circling the tree thrice, on which branch can they perch?

2. (dialectal) Classifier for times, as in frequency.

   雨逿一匝復逿一匝 [Eastern Min, trad.]
   雨𰺲一匝复𰺲一匝 [Eastern Min, simp.]

   From: 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects], Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN, page 890

   huô dâung siŏh-cák bô-*dâung siŏh-cák / [huɔ²⁴² tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒɑʔ²⁴ pu²⁴²⁻⁵³ tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)ʒɑʔ²⁴] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   It rains again and again

3. (literary) to surround; to encircle
4. (literary) to spread all over; to reach (a limit); to complete a full cycle

   匝地  ―  zādì  ―  to be all over the ground

   匝月  ―  zāyuè  ―  to reach one month

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 次 (“time (frequency)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		度
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		次, 回, 遍
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	次
	Malaysia	次
	Singapore	次
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	次
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	次, 回
	Guiyang	回
	Guilin	回
	Liuzhou	回
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	回, 摩, 次
Cantonese	Guangzhou	次
	Hong Kong	次
	Macau	次
	Rongxian	次
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	次, 擺
	Ipoh (Guangfu)	次, 擺
	Singapore (Guangfu)	次, 擺
	Bangkok (Guangfu)	次
	Betong (Rongxian)	擺
Gan	Nanchang	次, 回
	Pingxiang	次
Hakka	Meixian	擺
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	擺
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	次
	Liannan	次
	Jiexi	輪
	Changting	回
	Wuping	下, 到
	Ninghua	回
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	擺, 到
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	擺, 到
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	擺, 到
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	擺, 到
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	擺, 到
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	擺, 回
	Hong Kong	次
	Senai (Huiyang)	擺
Jin	Taiyuan	次
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	匝
Southern Min	Xiamen	擺, 斗
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	擺
	Quanzhou	擺, 斗
	Anxi	擺
	Zhangzhou	擺, 斗
	Zhao'an	次, 擺
	Tainan	擺, 改, 斗
	Penang (Hokkien)	斗
	Singapore (Hokkien)	擺
	Manila (Hokkien)	擺
	Chaozhou	匝, 過
	Jieyang	匝, 過, 擺
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	次, 匝
	Singapore (Teochew)	擺, 匝
	Leizhou	回
	Wenchang	下, 次
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	遍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	次
Wu	Shanghai	次, 埭, 趟, 頓, 遍, 場, 轉, 下
	Shanghai (Chongming)	趟, 頓, 場
	Suzhou	趟, 頓, 場
	Danyang	頓, 場
	Hangzhou	埭, 趟, 頓, 通
	Ningbo	回, 埭, 卯, 遭 dated, 記

Compounds

• 交匝
• 刮刮匝匝
• 匝匝
• 匝旬
• 匝月 (zāyuè)
• 匝道 (zādào)
• 匼匝
• 周匝 (zhōuzā)
• 密匝匝 (mìzāzā)
• 密密匝匝 (mìmìzāzā)
• 曲匝
• 漫天匝地
• 笙歌匝地
• 輪匝帶／轮匝带
• 迴匝／回匝
• 逼匝

 

References

• “匝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “匝”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 297.

Japanese

Kanji

匝

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to go around
2. Classifier for circuits or circles

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←そふ (sofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さふ (safu, historical)}
• Kun: めぐる (meguru, 匝る)

Compounds

• 匝(そう)瑳(さ) (Sōsa)
• 匝(そう)線(せん) (sōsen)
• 一(いっ)匝(そう) (issō)
• 環(かん)匝(そう) (kansō)
• 朞(き)匝(そう) (kisō)
• 鉿(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 匼(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 瞌(こう)匝(そう) (kōsō)
• 周(しゅう)匝(そう) (shūsō) (周(しゅう)帀(そう))

 

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕa̠p̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [잡]

Hanja

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匝 (eum 잡 (jap))

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Vietnamese

Han character

匝: Hán Nôm readings: táp

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