喺
Appearance
|
Translingual
[edit]Han character
[edit]喺 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人竹火 (ROHF), composition ⿰口係)
References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 657, character 2
- Unihan data for U+55BA
Chinese
[edit]Glyph origin
[edit]Historical forms of the character 系 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Etymology 1
[edit]trad. | 喺 | |
---|---|---|
simp. # | 喺 | |
nonstandard simp. | 𫪈 | |
alternative forms | o係 Internet 起 (hei2) eye dialect 匸 rare |
Possibly from the copula 係/系 (hai6) (Chappell and Lü, 2022).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: hai2
- Yale: hái
- Cantonese Pinyin: hai2
- Guangdong Romanization: hei2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɐi̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: hai2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hai⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
[edit]喺 (Cantonese)
- to be located in/at
- (located) in; at; within
- (temporal) in
- 喺2012 [Cantonese] ― hai2 2012 [Jyutping] ― in 2012
- within; in
Synonyms
[edit]Usage notes
[edit]- Not to be confused with 係/系 (hai6, “to be”).
- While Mandarin 在 (zài) can be used as a verb without an object (他現在不在 "he is not here right now"), Cantonese must use 喺度 (佢而家唔喺度 "he is not here right now").
Compounds
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]trad. | 喺 | |
---|---|---|
simp. # | 喺 |
Pronunciation
[edit]Definitions
[edit]喺
Further reading
[edit]- 竹越美奈子 (TAKEKOSHI, Minako), 横田文彦 (YOKOTA, Fumihiko) (2007) ““喺”的历史演变”, in 第十届国际粤方言研讨会论文集, pages 299–305
Categories:
- CJK Unified Ideographs block
- Han script characters
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- Cantonese terms with audio pronunciation
- Chinese lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Taishanese lemmas
- Chinese hanzi
- Cantonese hanzi
- Taishanese hanzi
- Chinese prepositions
- Cantonese prepositions
- Taishanese prepositions
- Chinese verbs
- Cantonese verbs
- Taishanese verbs
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chinese terms spelled with 喺
- Cantonese Chinese
- Cantonese terms with usage examples
- Hakka lemmas
- Hakka hanzi
- Hakka prepositions
- Hakka Chinese