# 襾

| 襾 | U+897E, &#35198; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-897E |
| ← 襽 [U+897D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 西 → [U+897F] |
| ⾑ | U+2F91, &#12177; KANGXI RADICAL WEST |
| ← ⾐ [U+2F90] | Kangxi Radicals | ⾒ → [U+2F92] |

## Translingual
### Han character

襾 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一山月 (MUB) or 難一山月 (XMUB), four-corner 1022$_7$, composition ⿱一⿻凵冂)
* Kangxi radical #146, ⾑.

#### Usage notes

襾 is the 146th radical of the Kangxi dictionary. It most often appears at the top in the form 覀 as in 覄. It is important to distinguish it from 西 and 酉.

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/襾
* 𡊹

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1128, character 9
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34762
* Dae Jaweon: page 1595, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2805, character 1
* Unihan data for U+897E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 襾 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 賈 | *kraːʔ, *kraːs, *klaːʔ |
| 檟 | *kraːʔ |
| 價 | *kraːs |
| 覀 | *qʰraːʔ |
| 襾 | *qraːs |
According to Xu Shen, it's 冂 overlapped with 凵 and a horizontal stroke on top to indicate the act of covering something.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yà, xià (ya$^4$, xia$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˋ, ㄒㄧㄚˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): aa$^3$ / kaa$^1$ / haa$^2$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): á
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): à / hà
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yà
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yà
*** Wade–Giles: ya$^4$
*** Yale: yà
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yah
*** Palladius: я (ja)
*** Sinological IPA : /jä⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xià
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sià
*** Wade–Giles: hsia$^4$
*** Yale: syà
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiah
*** Palladius: ся (sja)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ä⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: aa$^3$ / kaa$^1$ / haa$^2$
*** Yale: a / kā / há
*** Cantonese Pinyin: aa$^3$ / kaa$^1$ / haa$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: a$^3$ / ka$^1$ / ha$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /aː³³/, /kʰaː⁵⁵/, /haː³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: á
*** Hakka Romanization System: a$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: a$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /a³¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: à / hà
*** Tâi-lô: à / hà
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ax, hax
*** IPA (Xiamen): /a²¹/, /ha²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /a⁴¹/, /ha⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /a²¹/, /ha²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /a¹¹/, /ha¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /a²¹/, /ha²¹/
* Middle Chinese: xaeX
Rime :
| Character | 襾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (98) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 許下切 |
| Baxter | xaeX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hˠa$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hᵚa$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xa$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /haɨ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /xa$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /xa$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /xa$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiǎ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | haa$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤraʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qraːs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 襾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yà |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xæ$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰˁraʔ/ |
| English | cover |
| 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 | 襾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14204 |
| Phonetic component | 襾 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 亞 |
| Old Chinese | /*qraːs/ |

### Definitions

襾
* cover

## Japanese
### Kanji

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

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): あ (a)、か (ka)、け (ke)
* Kun: おおう (ōu)