闍

See also: 阇

闍 U+95CD, 闍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CD ← 闌たけなわ [U+95CC] CJK Unified Ideographs 闎 → [U+95CE]

Translingual

Han character

闍 (Kangxi radical 169, 門もん+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日にち弓ゆみ十じゅう大日だいにち (ANJKA), four-corner 7760₄, composition ⿵門もん者もの)

1. tower over city gate

Derived characters

• 𡄢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41434
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4302, character 11
• Unihan data for U+95CD

Chinese

trad.		闍
simp.		阇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (者もの) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
觰	*rtaːʔ, *rtaː
諸しょ	*tjaː, *tja
者もの	*tjaːʔ
堵と	*tjaːʔ, *taːʔ
赭	*tjaːʔ
撦	*l̥ʰjaːʔ
扯	*tʰjaːʔ
闍	*djaː, *taː
奢おご	*hljaː
鍺	*toːlʔ
都と	*taː
醏	*taː
覩	*taːʔ
睹	*taːʔ
暏	*taːʔ
賭と	*taːʔ
帾	*taːʔ
楮こうぞ	*taːʔ, *tʰaʔ
屠ほふ	*daː, *da
瘏	*daː
廜	*daː
鷵	*daː
緒いとぐち	*ljaʔ
豬	*ta
猪いのしし	*ta
瀦	*ta
藸	*ta, *da
櫫	*ta
褚	*taʔ, *tʰaʔ
著しる	*taʔ, *tas, *da, *taɡ, *daɡ
箸はし	*tas, *das
儲もうか	*da
躇	*da
櫧	*tja
藷いも	*tja, *djas
蠩	*tja
煮に	*tjaʔ
渚なぎさ	*tjaʔ
煑	*tjaʔ
陼	*tjaʔ
翥	*tjas
署しょ	*djas
薯いも	*djas
曙あけぼの	*djas
書しょ	*hlja
暑あつ	*hjaʔ
鐯	*taɡ
擆	*taɡ
櫡	*taɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *djaː, *taː) : semantic 門もん (“door”) + phonetic 者もの (OC *tjaːʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dū (du¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dū
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: du
    • Wade–Giles: tu¹
    • Yale: dū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: du
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dou¹
    • Yale: dōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tu, dzyae

Rime
Character	闍	闍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	端はし (5)	常つね (25)
Final (韻いん)	模も (23)	麻あさ (100)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I	III
Fanqie	當とう孤こ切きり	視み遮さえぎ切きり
Baxter	tu	dzyae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuo/	/d͡ʑia/
Pan Wuyun	/tuo/	/d͡ʑia/
Shao Rongfen	/to/	/d͡ʑia/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tɔ/	/d͡ʑia/
Li Rong	/to/	/ʑia/
Wang Li	/tu/	/ʑĭa/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuo/	/ʑi̯a/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dū	ché
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou1	se4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djaː/, /*taː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	闍	闍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16965	16969
Phonetic component	者もの	者もの
Rime group	魚さかな	魚さかな
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	闍	都と
Old Chinese	/*djaː/	/*taː/

Definitions

闍

1. (archaic) platform over city gate; barbican
2. Used in 闍里.

Compounds

• 闍臺／阇台
• 闍里
• 闉闍／𬮱阇

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shé (she²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se⁴ / ze¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shé
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shé
    • Wade–Giles: shê²
    • Yale: shé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sher
    • Palladius: шэ (šɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: se⁴ / ze¹
    • Yale: sèh / jē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se⁴ / dze¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé⁴ / zé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː²¹/, /t͡sɛː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyae

Rime
Character	闍
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	常つね (25)
Final (韻いん)	麻あさ (100)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III
Fanqie	視み遮さえぎ切きり
Baxter	dzyae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑia/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑia/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑia/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑia/
Li Rong	/ʑia/
Wang Li	/ʑĭa/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯a/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ché
Expected Cantonese Reflex	se4

Definitions

闍

1. Used in transcription, especially from Sanskrit.

Compounds

• 伐き闍羅／伐き阇罗
• 安やす闍那／安やす阇那
• 必闍赤あか／必阇赤あか
• 羅ら闍／罗阇
• 耆闍／耆阇
• 耆闍崛山／耆阇崛山
• 蘭らん闍／兰阇
• 闍婆／阇婆 (Shépó)
• 闍婆婆ばば達たち／阇婆婆ばば达
• 闍婆達たち／阇婆达
• 闍提花はな／阇提花はな
• 闍梨／阇梨
• 闍毗／阇毗
• 闍維／阇维
• 闍黎／阇黎
• 阿おもね闍／阿おもね阇
• 阿おもね闍世／阿おもね阇世
• 阿闍梨あじゃり／阿おもね阇梨 (āshélí)
• 阿おもね闍黎／阿おもね阇黎

 

References

• “闍”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

闍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. watchtower
2. used as a phonetic reading

Readings

• Go-on: じゃ (ja); つ (tsu)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha); と (to)
• Kun: うてな (utena, 闍)

Korean

Hanja

闍 • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to, Yale to)

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