# 卅

| 卅 | U+5345, &#21317; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5345 |
| ← 卄 [U+5344] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 卆 → [U+5346] |

## Translingual
### Han character

卅 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 廿十 (TJ), four-corner 4400$_0$, composition ⿻川一 or ⿻丿卄 or ⿻廾丨)
* Shuowen Jiezi radical №55

#### Derived characters

* 𠯢, 𫭜, 𢌽, 𦬢, 𤽒, 𦱴

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2700
* Dae Jaweon: page 353, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 59, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5345

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卅 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
十 (shí, “10”), repeated three times. See also 廿.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sà (sa$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄚˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): saa$^1$ / saa$^4$ / saa$^1$ aa$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sa̍p / siap
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sab$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sà
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄚˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sà
*** Wade–Giles: sa$^4$
*** Yale: sà
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sah
*** Palladius: са (sa)
*** Sinological IPA : /sä⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saa$^1$ / saa$^4$ / saa$^1$ aa$^6$
*** Yale: sā / sàh / sā ah
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saa$^1$ / saa$^4$ / saa$^1$ aa$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sa$^1$ / sa$^4$ / sa$^1$ a$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /saː⁵⁵/, /saː²¹/, /saː⁵⁵ aː²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sa̍p
*** Tâi-lô: sa̍p
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sap
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sap̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
*** Tâi-lô: siap
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siab
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: sab$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sap
*** Sinological IPA : /sap̚²/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*suːb/, /*soːb/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 卅 | 卅 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 10954 | 10955 |
| Phonetic component | 卅 | 卅 |
| Rime group | 緝 | 盍 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 趿 | 𠎷 |
| Old Chinese | /*suːb/ | /*soːb/ |

### Definitions

卅
* thirty

#### Synonyms

* 三十 (sānshí)
* (Cantonese, colloquial) 卅呀

#### Compounds

* 五卅慘案／五卅惨案 (Wǔ-Sà Cǎn'àn)
* 五卅運動／五卅运动 (Wǔ-Sà Yùndòng)
* 西卅店 (Xīsàdiàn)

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), a00433
* “卅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* (archaic) thirty

#### Readings

* Go-on: そう (sō)
* Kan-on: そう (sō)
* Kun: さんじゅう (sanjū, 卅)、みそ (miso, 卅)

### Etymology

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From the Middle Chinese 卅?”

## Korean
### Hanja

卅 (eumhun 삼십 삽 (samsip sap))
卅 (eumhun 서른 삽 (seoreun sap))
* thirty, thirtieth

## Vietnamese
### Han character

卅: Hán Nôm readings: tạp, nẫm
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.