# 劙

| 劙 | U+5299, &#21145; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5299 |
| ← 劘 [U+5298] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 劚 → [U+529A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

劙 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+21, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女戈中弓 (VILN), four-corner 2210$_0$, composition ⿰蠡刂)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 145, character 46
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2283
* Dae Jaweon: page 327, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 363, character 11
* Unihan data for U+5299

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 盠 | *reːlʔ, *reːl |
| 欚 | *reːlʔ |
| 劙 | *reːlʔ, *reːls, *rel |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *reːlʔ, *reːls, *rel): phonetic 蠡 (OC *reːlʔ, *rel, *roːl) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

### Etymology 1

Possibly related to 刕 (lí). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lí (li$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lai$^5$ / lai$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lí
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lí
*** Wade–Giles: li$^2$
*** Yale: lí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
*** Palladius: ли (li)
*** Sinological IPA : /li³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lai$^5$ / lai$^6$
*** Yale: láih / laih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lai$^5$ / lai$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lei$^5$ / lei$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɐi̯¹³/, /lɐi̯²²/
* Middle Chinese: lje, lejX, lejH
Rime :
| Character | 劙 | 劙 | 劙 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 齊 (39) | 齊 (39) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | IV | IV |
| Fanqie | 呂支切 | 盧啓切 | 郎計切 |
| Baxter | lje | lejX | lejH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /liᴇ/ | /lei$^X$/ | /lei$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /liɛ/ | /lei$^X$/ | /lei$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ljɛ/ | /lɛi$^X$/ | /lɛi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /liə̆/ | /lɛj$^X$/ | /lɛj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /lie/ | /lei$^X$/ | /lei$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /lǐe/ | /liei$^X$/ | /liei$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /lie̯/ | /liei$^X$/ | /liei$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lí | lǐ | lì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lei$^4$ | lai$^5$ | lai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*rel/, /*reːlʔ/, /*reːls/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 劙 | 劙 | 劙 |
| Reading # | 3/3 | 1/3 | 2/3 |
| No. | 7815 | 7813 | 7814 |
| Phonetic component | 蠡 | 蠡 | 蠡 |
| Rime group | 歌 | 歌 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 離 | 禮 | 麗 |
| Old Chinese | /*rel/ | /*reːlʔ/ | /*reːls/ |
| Notes | | | 見方言 |

#### Definitions

劙
* (Classical, usually dialectal) to divide; to slice open; to slash

#### Compounds

* 劃劙 / 划劙
* 劙刀
* 劙囊

#### See also

* 剺 (lí)

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 劙 – see 盠. (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 盠).

### References

* 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “劙”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00251

## 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): り (ri)、れい (rei)、らい (rai)
* Kun: とく (toku)、わける (wakeru)、わる (waru)

## Korean
### Hanja

劙 • (ri, rye) (hangeul 리, 례, revised ri, rye, McCune–Reischauer ri, rye, Yale li, lyey)
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