麚

麚 U+9E9A, 麚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E9A ← 麙 [U+9E99] CJK Unified Ideographs 麛 → [U+9E9B]

Translingual

Han character

麚 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+9, 20 strokes, cangjie input 戈心口尸水 (IPRSE), four-corner 0074₇, composition ⿸鹿叚)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1511, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47670
• Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4734, character 17
• Unihan data for U+9E9A

Chinese

trad.		麚
simp. #		麚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麚
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
葭	*kraː
麚	*kraː
瘕	*kraː, *kraːʔ
豭	*kraː
貑	*kraː
猳	*kraː
犌	*kraː
假	*kraːʔ, *kraːs
嘏	*kraːʔ
婽	*kraːʔ
椵	*kraːʔ
叚	*kraːʔ
蝦	*qʰraː, *ɡraː
煆	*qʰraː, *qʰraːs
霞	*ɡraː
遐	*ɡraː
瑕	*ɡraː
鰕	*ɡraː
碬	*ɡraː
蕸	*ɡraː
赮	*ɡraː
鍜	*ɡraː
騢	*ɡraː
暇	*ɡraːs

Etymology

Wang (1982) relates this word to 豭 (OC *kraː, “pig”), 羖 (OC *klaːʔ, “(black) ram”), and 牯 (OC *kaːʔ, “male bovine”). See 豭 (jiā) for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiā (jia¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jia
    • Wade–Giles: chia¹
    • Yale: jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jia
    • Palladius: цзя (czja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaa¹
    • Yale: gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kae

Rime
Character	麚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古牙切
Baxter	kae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ka/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨ/
Li Rong	/ka/
Wang Li	/ka/
Bernard Karlgren	/ka/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麚
Reading #	1/1
No.	5949
Phonetic component	叚
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	嘉
Old Chinese	/*kraː/

Definitions

麚

1. buck
2. stag

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 3), p. 252