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茜

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsai1#

parsley
used in transliterations
part of a name
name of a place

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsin3#

Rubia cordifolia
Indian madder
munjeet

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsin6#

Rubia cordifolia
Indian madder
munjeet

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

sai11 · high level

sin33 · mid level

sin66 · low level

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

茜 has the reading sai1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sin6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 茜 sai1 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

sai西sai1west 洗sai2to wash 世sai3lifesai4—sai5—逝sai6to pass

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

茜

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

茜 qiàn CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red; dark red; alizarin crimson
茜 xī CC-CEDICT · Mandarinused in the transliteration of people's names

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: qian4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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