瑣

See also: 琐

瑣	U+7463, 瑣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7463

← 瑢
[U+7462]

CJK Unified Ideographs

瑤 →
[U+7464]

Translingual

Han character

瑣 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一土火月金 (MGFBC), four-corner 1918₆, composition ⿰𤣩𧴪)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 738, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21147
Dae Jaweon: page 1149, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1130, character 15
Unihan data for U+7463

Chinese

trad.		瑣
simp.		琐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鎖	*soːlʔ
瑣	*soːlʔ
溑	*soːlʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): suǒ (suo³)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): so²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): só

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suǒ
  - Wade–Giles: so³
  - Yale: swǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suoo
  - Palladius: со (so)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: so²
  - Yale: só
  - Cantonese Pinyin: so²
  - Guangdong Romanization: so²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só
  - Tâi-lô: só
  - Phofsit Daibuun: soir
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /so⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /so⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /so⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /so⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɤ⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: swaX

Rime
Character	瑣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇果切
Baxter	swaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/suɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/suɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swa^X/
Li Rong	/suɑ^X/
Wang Li	/suɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	so²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤojʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*soːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瑣	瑣
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suǒ	suǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ swa^X ›	‹ swa^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁojʔ/	/*[s]ˁojʔ/
English	chain	small, fragment
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	瑣
Reading #	1/1
No.	12206
Phonetic component	瑣
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	鎖
Old Chinese	/*soːlʔ/
Notes	轉註加玉

Definitions

瑣

petty; trivial; insignificant
low; base
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 鎖／锁 (suǒ, “chain; lock”).
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) chain -like pattern
(historical dictionaries only) sound of jade; fragments of jade
a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

瑣

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): さ (sa)
Kun: ちいさい (chīsai)

Compounds

瑣事(さじ) (saji)
瑣末(さまつ) (samatsu)
煩瑣(はんさ) (hansa)

Korean

Hanja

瑣 • (swae) (hangeul 쇄, revised swae, McCune–Reischauer swae, Yale sway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瑣: Hán Nôm readings: tỏa/toả

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