匣

Translingual

Etymology

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

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

	Old Chinese
笚	*ʔl'aːb, *ɡraːb
閘	*klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb
鉀	*klaːb, *kraːb
甲	*kraːb
胛	*kraːb
岬	*kraːb
押	*kraːb, *qraːb
玾	*kraːb
呷	*qʰraːb
匣	*ɡraːb
狎	*ɡraːb
柙	*ɡraːb
翈	*ɡraːb
炠	*ɡraːb
鴨	*qraːb
庘	*qraːb

Han character

匣 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸田中 (SWL), four-corner 7171₅, composition ⿷匚甲)

1. small box, case, coffer

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2610
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 84, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5323

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		匣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiá (xia²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haap⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siá
    • Wade–Giles: hsia²
    • Yale: syá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
    • Palladius: ся (sja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haap⁶
    • Yale: haahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːp̚²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 匣
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕia³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕia²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕiɑ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕia⁴²/
	Qingdao	/ɕia⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕia⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕia²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕia⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕia⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕia⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕia²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕia³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕia²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕia̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕiɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕiɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xaʔ⁵⁴/ /ɕiaʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/xʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiaʔ⁴³/ 風～ /ɕia³¹/ ～子
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦaʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦaʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦiɑʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ɦa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xa²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕia²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ɕiɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/kap̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hɐp̚²/
	Nanning	/hap̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/hɐp̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hap̚⁵/ /aʔ⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/aʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ka²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ap̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ap̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: haep

Rime
Character	匣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	狎 (150)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡甲切
Baxter	haep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠap̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚap̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣap̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨp̚/
Li Rong	/ɣap̚/
Wang Li	/ɣap̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣap̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiá
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haap6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤr[a]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiá
Middle Chinese	‹ hæp ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁr[a]p/
English	box
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	匣
Reading #	1/1
No.	5938
Phonetic component	甲
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	狎
Old Chinese	/*ɡraːb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匣

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Japanese

Kanji

匣

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. box

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: はこ (hako)

Compounds

• 匣鉢 (さや, saya)

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Korean

Hanja

匣 • (gap) (hangeul 갑, revised gap, McCune–Reischauer kap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 匣 (hạp, hộp, háp, tráp)

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