# 鹺

| 鹺 | U+9E7A, &#40570; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E7A |
| ← 鹹 [U+9E79] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鹻 → [U+9E7B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鹺 (Kangxi radical 197, 鹵+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜田廿手一 (YWTQM), four-corner 2861$_0$, composition ⿰鹵差)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1507, character 29
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47563
* Dae Jaweon: page 2035, character 31
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4611, character 2
* Unihan data for U+9E7A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 左 | *ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls |
| 佐 | *ʔsaːls |
| 袏 | *ʔslaːls |
| 蹉 | *sʰlaːl |
| 瑳 | *sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ |
| 搓 | *sʰlaːl |
| 磋 | *sʰlaːl |
| 溠 | *sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls |
| 傞 | *sʰlaːl, *slaːl |
| 醝 | *zlaːl |
| 瘥 | *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls |
| 鹺 | *zlaːl |
| 嵯 | *zlaːl, *sʰral |
| 嵳 | *zlaːl |
| 蒫 | *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl |
| 艖 | *zlaːl, *sʰraːl |
| 齹 | *zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral |
| 縒 | *slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ |
| 褨 | *slaːlʔ |
| 嗟 | *ʔsljal |
| 差 | *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral |
| 鎈 | *sʰraːl |
| 槎 | *zraːl, *zraːlʔ |
| 髊 | *zlals |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zlaːl) : semantic 鹵 (“salt”) + phonetic 差 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral).

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan ཚྭ (tshwa), Situ tsʰe, Burmese ဆား (hca:) and Nuosu ꋂ (ce).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cuó (cuo$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): co$^4$ / co$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cuó
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cuó
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻo$^2$
*** Yale: tswó
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tswo
*** Palladius: цо (co)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu̯ɔ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: co$^4$ / co$^1$
*** Yale: chòh / chō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tso$^4$ / tso$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: co$^4$ / co$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɔː²¹/, /t͡sʰɔː⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: dza
Rime :
| Character | 鹺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 昨何切 |
| Baxter | dza |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡zɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡zɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡zɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡za/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡zɑ/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡zɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /d͡zʱɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | cuó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | co$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-[ts]ˤaj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*zlaːl/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鹺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | cuó |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dza › |
| Old Chinese | /*N-[ts]ˁaj/ |
| English | salt |
| 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 | 鹺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 18017 |
| Phonetic component | 左 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 醝 |
| Old Chinese | /*zlaːl/ |

### Definitions

鹺
* (obsolete) salted
    Synonym: 鹹／咸 (xián)
* (obsolete) salt
    Synonym: 鹽／盐

### Compounds

* 鹺使／鹾使
* 鹺務／鹾务

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B06212
* “鹺”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): さ (sa)、ざ (za)、し (shi)、じ (ji)
* Kun: しお (shio)

## Korean
### Hanja

鹺 (eum 차 (cha))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

鹺: Hán Nôm readings: ta
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#### References

* Nom Foundation