啫

啫 U+556B, 啫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-556B ← 啪 [U+556A] CJK Unified Ideographs 啬 → [U+556C]

Translingual

Han character

啫 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口十大日 (RJKA), composition ⿰口者)

Derived characters

• 𣾻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 636, character 4
• Unihan data for U+556B

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		啫
alternative forms		嗻 姐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zē (ze¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zē
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ze
    • Wade–Giles: tsê¹
    • Yale: dzē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tze
    • Palladius: цзэ (czɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ze¹
    • Yale: jē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啫

1. (Cantonese) sentence final particle: only; just; simply; merely

   • 你冇女朋友？梗係唔信啦！……或者有。你唔知啫。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     你冇女朋友？梗系唔信啦！……或者有。你唔知啫。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館

     nei⁵ mou⁵ neoi⁵ pang⁴ jau⁵? gang² hai⁶ m⁴ seon³ laa¹!...... waak⁶ ze² jau⁵. nei⁵ m⁴ zi¹ ze¹. [Jyutping]

     You don't have a girlfriend? Of course I don't believe you! ... Maybe you do have one, but you just don't know it.

2. (Cantonese) Used to form critical questions.

   你琴日去咗邊啫？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你琴日去咗边啫？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ kam⁴ jat⁶ heoi³ zo² bin¹ ze¹? [Jyutping]

   Where exactly did you go yesterday?

   你想點啫？／你想点啫？ [Cantonese]  ―  nei⁵ soeng² dim² ze¹? [Jyutping]  ―  What do you want?

3. (Cantonese) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   好彩冇事啫。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   hou² coi² mou⁵ si⁶ ze¹. [Jyutping]

   At least nothing happened.

Synonyms

• (only):

Dialectal synonyms of 而已 (“(sentence-final particle) just; simply”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		而已, 云爾
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		而已, 罷了
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	罷了
	Taiwan	而已
	Malaysia	罷了
	Singapore	而已
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	罷了
Cantonese	Guangzhou	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Hong Kong	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	啫, 之嘛
	Taishan	之嘛, 咋
	Kaiping (Chikan)	之嘛, 逸, 咿
	Enping (Niujiang)	之嘛, 咋
	Singapore (Guangfu)	啫, 之嘛
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	定定
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	定定
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	定定, 定
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	忒等
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	定定
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	定
Southern Min	Xiamen	爾爾, 爾
	Quanzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Zhangzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Tainan	爾爾
	Penang (Hokkien)	爾
	Singapore (Hokkien)	爾, 爾爾
	Jieyang	定

See also

• 唧 (jī)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 啫 – see 脧 (“penis; to reduce”). (This character is a variant form of 脧).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 啫 – see 嗜 (“to be addicted to; to indulge in; to have weakness for; to covet”). (This character is a variant form of 嗜).

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		啫
alternative forms		jer ger

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 追?”)

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoe¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoe¹
    • Yale: jēu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoe¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zê¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啫

1. (Cantonese) to target, to annoy someone verbally

   啫住 [Cantonese]  ―  zoe¹ zyu⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology 5

simp. and trad.		啫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhě (zhe³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhě
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhě
    • Wade–Giles: chê³
    • Yale: jě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jee
    • Palladius: чжэ (čžɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ze¹
    • Yale: jē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啫

1. Only used in 啫喱／啫哩 (zhělī, “jelly”).