# 嘒

| 嘒 | U+5612, &#22034; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5612 |
| ← 嘑 [U+5611] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嘓 → [U+5613] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嘒 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口手十一 (RQJM) or 口手十尸 (RQJS), four-corner 6507$_1$, composition ⿰口彗)
* tiny
* chirping, whistling
* shrill sound, sharp

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 205, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4196
* Dae Jaweon: page 428, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 672, character 8
* Unihan data for U+5612

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 櫘 | *sqʰʷeds |
| 彗 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids |
| 篲 | *sɢʷeds |
| 鏏 | *sɢʷeds |
| 槥 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds |
| 轊 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds |
| 熭 | *ɢʷeds, *ɢʷad |
| 嘒 | *qʰʷeːds |
| 暳 | *qʰʷeːds |
| 嚖 | *qʰʷeds |
| 慧 | *ɡʷeːds |
| 蔧 | *sɢʷids |
| 雪 | *sqʰʷed |

### Etymology
#### “small”

    For this particular sense, Sagart (2021) modifies Baxter and Sagart's (2014) Old Chinese reconstruction to *Cə-pʰˤut and speculates a connection to 勃 (OC *bɯːd), 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids), all potentially from to a root relating to "dust".

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): huì (hui$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: huì
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: huèi
*** Wade–Giles: hui$^4$
*** Yale: hwèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
*** Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
*** Sinological IPA : /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wai$^3$
*** Yale: wai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: xwejH
Rime :
| Character | 嘒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 齊 (40) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 呼惠切 |
| Baxter | xwejH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hwei$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hʷei$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xuɛi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /hwɛj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /xuei$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /xiwei$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xiwei$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | huì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤi[t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷeːds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嘒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | huì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xwej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷʰˁi[t]-s/ |
| English | to chirp (of insects) |
| 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 | 嘒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5471 |
| Phonetic component | 彗 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 嘒 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰʷeːds/ |

### Definitions

嘒
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, onomatopoeia) chirp, shrill, whistle
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Wǎn bǐ liǔ sī, míngtiáo huì huì. [Pinyin]
    Luxuriant grow those willows, and the cicadas [on them] go hui-hui.
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gǔ yuān yuān, huì huì guǎn shēng. [Pinyin]
    Deep is the sound of the hand-drums and drums; shrilly sound the flutes.
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) very small
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Huì bǐ xiǎoxīng, sān wǔ zài dōng. Sùsù xiāo zhēng, sùyè zài gōng, shí mìng bùtóng. [Pinyin]
    Small are those starlets, three or five of them in the east, swiftly by night we go; in the early dawn we are with the prince. Our lot is not like hers.

### Compounds

* 嘒嘒

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* sharp

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): けい (kei)、け (ke)

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 嘒 (MC xwejH).

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [çe̞(ː)] ~ [he̞(ː)]
* Phonetic hangul: [혜(ː)/헤(ː)]
** Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

### Hanja

嘒 (eumhun 작은 소리 혜 (jageun sori hye))
* Used only when reading Classical Chinese texts.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

嘒: Hán Nôm readings: tóe/toé
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation