噏

Translingual

Han character

噏 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口人口卜 (RORY), composition ⿰口翕)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 208, character 31
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4310
Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 23
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 685, character 7
Unihan data for U+564F

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	quːm, qromʔ, qɯːm, qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	ɡuːmʔ, kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	tuːb, tʰoːb
褡	tuːb, toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	tuːb, tʰoːb
榙	tkuːb, ɡuːb
佮	tkʰuːb, kuːb, quːb, quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	kuːb, ɡuːb
郃	kuːb, ɡuːb
匌	kuːb, kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	kuːb, kruːb
韐	kuːb, kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	quːb, quːb
欱	qʰuːb, qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	kruːb, kob, *ɡob
袷	kruːb, ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	qʰjob, qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰrub) : semantic 口 + phonetic 翕 (OC *qʰrub).

Etymology 1

trad.		噏
simp. ^#		噏

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngap¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hih⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ngap¹
  - Yale: ngāp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngap⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngeb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐp̚⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ²/

Middle Chinese: xip

Rime
Character	噏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許及切
Baxter	xip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjip̚/
Li Rong	/xjəp̚/
Wang Li	/xĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hap¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)[ə]p/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰrub/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	噏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ xip ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)[ə]p/
English	draw together (Laozi, one version)
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	噏
Reading #	1/1
No.	5005
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	吸
Old Chinese	/*qʰrub/
Notes	同吸

Definitions

噏

^† Alternative form of 吸 (xī, “to inhale; to absorb; to imbibe”)

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad.		噏
simp. ^#		噏
alternative forms		吸𡀾 up

Possibly related to 吟 (ngam4) via Cantonese nasal-stop alternation.

Pronunciation

Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ngap¹

(Taishan, Wiktionary): ngap¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ngap¹
  - Yale: ngāp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngap⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngeb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐp̚⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: ngap¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵑɡap̚³³/

Definitions

噏

(Cantonese) to babble; to prattle; to talk nonsense
亂咁噏／乱咁噏 [Cantonese] ― lyun⁶ gam³ ngap¹ [Jyutping] ― to talk nonsense

我真係唔知佢噏乜喎。 [Cantonese, trad.]
我真系唔知佢噏乜㖞。 [Cantonese, simp.]
ngo⁵ zan¹ hai⁶ m⁴ zi¹ keoi⁵ ngap¹ mat¹ wo³. [Jyutping]
I really don't know what (s)he is on about.

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 噏 – see 罨 (“musty; with an unpleasant smell due to wetness; to leave something that is wet in a stuffy environment; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 罨).

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “噏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

噏

(Hyōgai kanji)

inhale, absorb, imbibe
compress

Readings

On (unclassified): きゅう (kyū)
Kun: すう (sū)

Korean

Hanja

噏 • (heup) (hangeul 흡, revised heup, McCune–Reischauer hŭp)

inhale, absorb, imbibe
compress

Vietnamese

Han character

噏: Hán Nôm readings: hấp

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