# 狹

| 狹 | U+72F9, &#29433; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72F9 |
| ← 狸 [U+72F8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 狺 → [U+72FA] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 狭 |
| Simplified | 狭 |
| Traditional | 狹 |

### Han character

狹 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大竹大人人 (KHKOO), four-corner 4423$_8$, composition ⿰犭夾)

#### Derived characters

* 𦷈

#### Descendants

* 狭

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 711, character 30
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20428
* Dae Jaweon: page 1123, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1348, character 4
* Unihan data for U+72F9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 瘞 | *qrebs |
| 瘱 | *qeːbs |
| 脥 | *kʰemʔ |
| 浹 | *skaːb, *skeːb |
| 挾 | *skaːb, *ɡeːb |
| 夾 | *kreːb |
| 郟 | *kreːb |
| 筴 | *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb |
| 裌 | *kreːb |
| 鵊 | *kreːb |
| 狹 | *ɡreːb |
| 峽 | *ɡreːb |
| 硤 | *ɡreːb |
| 陜 | *ɡreːb |
| 陿 | *ɡreːb |
| 翜 | *sraːb, *srɯːb |
| 梜 | *kraːb, *keːb |
| 頰 | *keːb |
| 莢 | *keːb |
| 鋏 | *keːb |
| 蛺 | *keːb |
| 唊 | *keːb |
| 悏 | *kʰeːb |
| 匧 | *kʰeːb |
| 愜 | *kʰeːb |
| 篋 | *kʰeːb |
| 俠 | *ɡeːb |
| 綊 | *ɡeːb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːb) : semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 夾 (OC *kreːb) – narrow-minded, like a dog.

### Etymology

The endopassive of 夾 (OC *kreːb, “to press between”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gjap (“narrow; crowded”), from which Burmese ကျပ် (kyap, “tight”) is derived (STEDT).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiá (xia$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): haap$^6$ / hap$^6$ / gip$^6$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): ha̍p
    (Hailu, HRS): hab$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): hab$^6$ / hiab$^6$
* Northern Min (KCR): hă
* Eastern Min (BUC): hiĕk / ĕk
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): oe̍h / e̍h / e̍reh / hia̍p / ha̍p
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hiab$^8$ / hiêb$^8$ / oih$^8$
* Wu (Northern, Wugniu): $^8$ghaq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiá
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siá
*** Wade–Giles: hsia$^2$
*** Yale: syá
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shya
*** Palladius: ся (sja)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ä³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: haap$^6$ / hap$^6$ / gip$^6$
*** Yale: haahp / hahp / gihp
*** Cantonese Pinyin: haap$^9$ / hap$^9$ / gip$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hab$^6$ / heb$^6$ / gib$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /haːp̚²/, /hɐp̚²/, /kiːp̚²/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ha̍p
*** Hakka Romanization System: hab
*** Hagfa Pinyim: hab$^6$
*** Sinological IPA: /hap̚⁵/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: hab$^ˋ$
*** Sinological IPA: /hap²/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: hab$^6$ / hiab$^6$
*** Sinological IPA: /hap̚⁵/, /hiap̚⁵/
* Meixian:
** hab6 - vernacular;
** hiab6 - literary.
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit狹 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕia³⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /ɕia²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /ɕiɑ⁴⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /ɕia⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /ɕia⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /ɕia⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /ɕia²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /ɕia²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /ɕia⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /ɕia⁵³/ /t͡ɕʰia¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /ɕia⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /ɕia²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /ɕia³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /ɕia²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /ɕia̠³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /ɕiɑʔ⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /ɕiɐʔ⁵/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕiaʔ⁵⁴/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /ɕiʌʔ⁵³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /ɕia³¹/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦaʔ¹/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /ɦaʔ³/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /ɦiɑʔ²/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /ɦa²¹³/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /xa²²/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /xɔ¹¹/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ɕia²⁴/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /xɒ²⁴/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /haʔ²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /hap̚⁵/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /hiɑp̚⁵⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /hap̚³/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /hap̚³³/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /hap̚³/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /hap̚⁵/ /ueʔ⁵/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /hieʔ⁵/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /xa²⁴/ /kiɛ⁴²/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /hiap̚⁵/ /oiʔ⁵/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /hiap̚³/ /kiap̚³/ |
* Middle Chinese: heap
Rime :
| Character | 狹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 洽 (152) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 侯夾切 |
| Baxter | heap |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦˠɛp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦᵚæp̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣɐp̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦəɨp̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣɐp̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣɐp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ɣăp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiá |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | haap$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-kˤ<r>ep/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡreːb/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 狹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xiá |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hɛp › |
| Old Chinese | /*N-kˁ<r>ep/ |
| English | narrow |
| 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 | 狹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5896 |
| Phonetic component | 夾 |
| Rime group | 盍 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 洽 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡreːb/ |

### Definitions

狹
* narrow (of rooms, pants, streets, etc.); tight
       $^8$diq-diau $^6$lon-daon $^7$theq $^8$ghaq $^0$leq $^6$lian-gheq-gnin $^6$bin-ba $^6$gha $^5$tseu-veq-ku-chi [Wugniu]
       This alleyway is too narrow, not even two people can go through it side by side.
* narrow-minded; narrow (of one's thinking, knowledge, mind, etc.)

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 狹, 隘, 窄 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 窄, 狹窄 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 窄 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 窄 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 窄 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 窄 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 窄 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 窄 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 窄 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 窄 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 窄 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 窄 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 窄 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 窄 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 窄 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 窄 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 窄 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 窄 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 狹, 窄 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Ting Kok) | 狹 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) | 狹 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Dapeng) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Qingyuan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Fogang | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Yingde (Hanguang) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Yangshan | 窄, 狹, 狹窄 |
| Cantonese | Lianshan (Butian) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Lianzhou (Qingshui Sihui) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Shaoguan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Shaoguan (Qujiang) | 窄, 狹 |
| Cantonese | Renhua | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Lechang | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Zhaoqing (Gaoyao) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Sihui | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guangning | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Deqing | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Huaiji | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Fengkai (Nanfeng) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Yunfu | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Xinxing | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Luoding | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Yunan (Pingtai) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Xinyi | 狹 |
| Cantonese | Lianjiang | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Nanning | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Wuzhou | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hepu (Lianzhou) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Guiping | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Mengshan (Xihe) | 狹 |
| Cantonese | Guigang (Nanjiang) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Baise | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Bobai | 狹 |
| Cantonese | Lingshan | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Pubei | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Qinzhou | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Beihai | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Ningming | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hengzhou | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Hezhou (Pumen, Babu) | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Danzhou | 窄 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 窄 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 狹, 窄 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 窄 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 狹 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) | 窄 |
| Hakka | Dongguan (Qingxi) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Heyuan (Bendihua) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Wengyuan | 狹 |
| Hakka | Liannan | 窄 |
| Hakka | Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Jiexi | 狹 |
| Hakka | Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Changting | 狹 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Yanqian) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Ninghua | 狹 |
| Hakka | Ningdu | 狹 |
| Hakka | Tonggu (Sandu) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Ganzhou (Panlong) | 窄 |
| Hakka | Dayu | 狹 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 窄, 狹 |
| Hakka | Yangxi (Tangkou) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Yangchun (Sanjia) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Xinyi (Sihe) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Xinyi (Qianpai) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Gaozhou (Xindong) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Huazhou (Xin'an) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Lianjiang (Shijiao) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Lianjiang (Qingping) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Mengshan (Xihe) | 狹 |
| Hakka | Luchuan | 狹 |
| Hakka | Senai (Huiyang) | 狹 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 窄 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 窄 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 迫 |
| Northern Min | Songxi | 迫 |
| Northern Min | Zhenghe | 迫 |
| Northern Min | Jianyang | 狹 |
| Northern Min | Wuyishan | 迫 |
| Northern Min | Pucheng (Shibei) | 迫 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 窄, 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou (Changle) | 窄 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Yongtai | 窄 |
| Eastern Min | Gutian | 窄 |
| Eastern Min | Fu'an | 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Ningde | 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Shouning | 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Zhouning | 狹 |
| Eastern Min | Fuding | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Taipei (Wanhua) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Taichung (Wuqi) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Taitung | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Shantou (Chenghai) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Johor Bahru (Teochew) | 狹 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 隘 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 狹 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 窄 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 狹 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 狹 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 狹 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 窄 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 狹 |

### Compounds

* 促狹／促狭 (cùxiá)
* 促狹鬼／促狭鬼
* 偏狹／偏狭 (piānxiá)
* 偏狹小器／偏狭小器
* 冤家路狹／冤家路狭
* 天窄地狹／天窄地狭
* 寬狹／宽狭
* 心胸狹窄／心胸狭窄 (xīnxiōngxiázhǎi)
* 狹小／狭小 (xiáxiǎo)
* 狹心症／狭心症 (xiáxīnzhèng)
* 狹斜／狭斜
* 狷狹／狷狭
* 狹窄／狭窄 (xiázhǎi)
* 狹義／狭义 (xiáyì)
* 狹路／狭路
* 狹路相逢／狭路相逢 (xiálùxiāngféng)
* 狹軌鐵路／狭轨铁路
* 狹長／狭长 (xiácháng)
* 狹隘／狭隘 (xiá'ài)
* 狹韻／狭韵
* 相逢狹路／相逢狭路
* 窄狹／窄狭
* 褊狹／褊狭 (biǎnxiá)
* 褊狹小器／褊狭小器
* 西狹頌／西狭颂
* 逼狹／逼狭 (bīxiá)

### Descendants

* → Lao: ແຄບ (khǣp)
* → Shan: ၵႅပ်ႈ (kēp)
* → Saek: เกฺ้บ.
* → Thai: แคบ (kɛ̂ɛp)

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 狭 |
| Kyūjitai | 狹 |

### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 狭)
* narrow
* contract
* reduce
* tight
* limited

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kan’yō-on: きょう (kyō)
* Kun: せ (se, 狹)、せまい (semai, 狹い)、せば (seba, 狹)、せばい (sebai, 狹い)、せばまる (sebamaru, 狹まる)、せばめる (sebameru, 狹める)、さ (sa, 狹)

## Korean
### Hanja

狹 • (hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune–Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

狹: Hán Nôm readings: hẹp, hiẹp, hệp
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