Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• In traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), this character is written with ? as the upper component, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In simplified Chinese, (mainland China and Singapore), Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja and Vietnamese Nom script, this character is written with ? as the upper component.

Han character

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Radical 135 ?

? (radical 135, ?+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input (HJR), four-corner 2060₄, composition ???(GJKV) or ???(HT))

1. Kangxi radical #135, ?.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/?
• ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?(?), ?(?), ?, ?, ?, ?, ?(?), ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?(?), ?(?), ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
• ?, ? (Simplified from the component ?)
• ?, ?, ? (Simplified from the component ?)

References

• KangXi: page 1006, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30277
• Dae Jaweon: page 1463, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2941, character 1
• Unihan data for U+820C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character ?
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram () - a forked tongue emerging upwards from a mouth (?).

Etymology 1

From ? (OC *?lje?, "to lick") + *-t ("nominal suffix for natural objects"), literally "licker" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

?

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. tongue-shaped object
3. clapper of a bell
4. A surname​.

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 "Ky?iku" kanji)

1. tongue
2. reed of a woodwind (musical instrument)
3. clapper of a bell

Readings

• Go-on: (zechi); (zetsu, J?y?)
• Kan-on: (zetsu, J?y?)
• Kun: (shita, ?, J?y?)

Compounds

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sita.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ??​ [shìtá?] (Odaka - [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [?i?ta?]

Noun

?() o (shita) 

1. tongue

   Synonym: (bero)

References

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese ? (MC ?i?t?).

Recorded as Middle Korean  (Yale: ssyelq) in Dongguk Jeongun (? / ?), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean ? (Yale: sel) in Hunmong Jahoe (? / ?), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

?

Wikisource

? (eumhun ? ? (hyeo seol))

1. Hanja form^? of ? ("tongue").

Compounds

References

• ( ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, ?/?. [1]

Kunigami

Kanji

?

• Kun: ? (shichaa)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ita:/

Noun

? (hiragana ?, romaji shich?)

1. tongue

Miyako

Kanji

?

• Kun: (suda)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ss?da/

Noun

? (hiragana , romaji suda)

1. tongue

Okinawan

Kanji

?

• Kun: (shicha)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ita/

Noun

? (hiragana , romaji shicha)

1. tongue

Vietnamese

Han character

?: Hán Nôm readings: thi?t, th?t

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Yaeyama

Kanji

?

• Kun: ? (sït?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ta/

Noun

? (hiragana ?, romaji sït?)

1. tongue

Yonaguni

Kanji

?

• Kun: (tta)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a/

Noun

? (hiragana , romaji tta)

1. tongue