# 薛

| 薛 | U+859B, &#34203; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-859B |
| ← 薚 [U+859A] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 薜 → [U+859C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

薛 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿竹口十 (THRJ), four-corner 4474$_1$, composition ⿱艹⿰𠂤辛)

#### Derived characters

* 𡤏, 𡾲, 𭣍, 𨇨, 𪈙, 𮮂, 𪈟, 㔑, 𠣅, 𫊎, 㜸, 孽, 蘖, 𭶧, 𪺶, 糵, 𧕏, 躠, 𪎃

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32123
* Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3303, character 8
* Unihan data for U+859B

## Chinese

* 薛姓 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Xue (English)
* 薛國

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 躠 | *sŋaːd |
| 嶭 | *ŋaːd, *ŋeːd |
| 櫱 | *ŋaːd, *ŋred |
| 薛 | *sŋed |
| 辥 | *sŋed |
| 孼 | *ŋred |
| 蘖 | *ŋred |
| 蠥 | *ŋred |
| 孽 | *ŋred |
| 糵 | *ŋred |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): xuē (xue$^1$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄝ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xue$^2$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sit$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): siet
    (Hailu, HRS): sied
    (Meixian, Guangdong): xiêd$^5$
* Eastern Min (BUC): siék
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sih / siat
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sih$^4$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^7$shiq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuē
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄝ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syue
*** Wade–Giles: hsüeh$^1$
*** Yale: sywē
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiue
*** Palladius: сюэ (sjue)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛ⁵⁵/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: xue$^2$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xye
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕye²¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sit$^3$
*** Yale: sit
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sit$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /siːt̚³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siet
*** Hakka Romanization System: xied$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: xiad$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /si̯et̚²/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: sied
*** Sinological IPA: /siet⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: xiêd$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /siɛt̚¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: siék
*** Sinological IPA : /siɛʔ²⁴/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sih
*** Tâi-lô: sih
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siq
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siʔ³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siʔ⁵/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siat
*** Tâi-lô: siat
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siad
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛt̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɛt̚³²/
* sih - vernacular （incl. surname);
* siat - literary.
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit薛 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕyɛ⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /ɕyɛ⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /ɕye²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /ɕyə²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /syə⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /syɛ²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /ɕiɛ²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /ɕi⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /ɕye¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /ɕyə¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /ɕyɤ²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /ɕie²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /ɕye³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /ɕie²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /ɕiɛ³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /syeʔ⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /ɕyɐʔ⁵/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕyəʔ²/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /ɕiʌʔ¹³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /ɕyaʔ⁴³/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɕiɪʔ⁵/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /siəʔ⁵/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /ɕiəʔ⁵/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /sei²¹³/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕyeʔ²¹/ /seʔ²¹/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /siɛ⁵/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /sie²⁴/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /sie²⁴/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ɕyɵʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /siet̚¹/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /siet̚²²/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sit̚³/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /ɬyt̚³³/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /sit̚³/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /siat̚³²/ /siʔ³²/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /siɛʔ²³/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /siɛ²⁴/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /siʔ²/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /tit̚⁵/ |
* Middle Chinese: sjet
Rime :
| Character | 薛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 薛 (81) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 私列切 |
| Baxter | sjet |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siᴇt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /siɛt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /siat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭɛt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /si̯ɛt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xie |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sit$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.ŋat/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sŋed/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 薛 | 薛 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xuē | xuē |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sjet › | ‹ sjet › |
| Old Chinese | /*s.ŋat/ | /*s.ŋat/ |
| English | spec. of plant | (place name) |
| 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 | 薛 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14060 |
| Phonetic component | 薛 |
| Rime group | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 薛 |
| Old Chinese | /*sŋed/ |

### Definitions

薛
* kind of marsh grass
* name of a feudal state
* a surname
    薛居正 ― Xuē Jūzhèng ― Xue Juzheng (lead author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties)

### Compounds

* 滕薛爭長／滕薛争长
* 薛卞
* 薛坪 (Xuēpíng)
* 薛延陀 (Xuēyántuó)
* 薛濤箋／薛涛笺
* 薛集 (Xuējí)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: せつ (setsu)
* Kan-on: せち (sechi)
* Kun: かわらよもぎ (kawarayomogi)、はますげ (hamasuge)

## Korean
### Hanja

薛 • (seol) (hangeul 설, revised seol, McCune–Reischauer sŏl, Yale sel)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

薛: Hán Việt readings: tiết, tuyết
薛: Nôm readings: tiết
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### References

* 1 2 Nguyễn (2014).
* ↑ Trần (2004).