楔 · xiē
wedge; gatepost; foreword
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
wedge; gatepost; foreword
- Mandarin
- xiē
- Cantonese
- sit3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 楔 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
セツ セチ ケツ ケチ カツ カチ くさびKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 설
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6954
- Radical
- 木 · 75
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 楔
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 契 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 契聲
Line 382 · ⿰木契 · 契聲 · source reference 2062540
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- keat · 古黠 反切 · #3434
- Middle Chinese
- set · 先結 反切 · #3465
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 17839 · keat = 山開二入山見 · set = 山開四入先心
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xiē
- kCantonese
- sit3
- kDefinition
- wedge; gatepost; foreword
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 75.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5392
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xiē,xiè 21242.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xiē 1273.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xiē 404.160
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xiē粵sit3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 古黠 先結
- Kangxi positions
- 0539.130
- Guangyun positions
- 489.13 491.25
- GSR references
- 0279i
- Cangjie
- DQHK
- Four-corner
- 4793.4