珬

珬 U+73EC, 珬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73EC ← 珫 [U+73EB] CJK Unified Ideographs 班 → [U+73ED]

Translingual

Han character

珬 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一土戈竹一 (MGIHM), composition ⿰𤣩戌)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 731, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20974
• Dae Jaweon: page 1142, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1110, character 5
• Unihan data for U+73EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		珬
alternative forms		㺷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
滅	*med
搣	*med
烕	*hmed
戌	*smid
珬	*smid
銊	*smid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *smid) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 戌 (OC *smid).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xù (xu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seot¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seot¹
    • Yale: sēut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soet⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêd¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swit

Rime
Character	珬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	辛聿切
Baxter	swit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swit̚/
Li Rong	/siuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seot1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*smid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	珬
Reading #	1/1
No.	13946
Phonetic component	戌
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	卹
Old Chinese	/*smid/

Definitions

珬

1. A stone which is like jade, or jade itself