處
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Translingual
| Traditional | 處 |
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| Shinjitai | 処 |
| Simplified | 处 |
Han character
處 (radical 141, 虍+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜心竹水弓 (YPHEN), four-corner 21241, composition ⿸虍処)
References
- KangXi: page 1073, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32697
- Dae Jaweon: page 1541, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2822, character 12
- Unihan data for U+8655
Chinese
| trad. | 處 | |
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| simp. | 处 | |
| alt. forms | 処 𠁅 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 處 | |
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| Western Zhou | Warring States |
| Bronze inscriptions | Qin slip script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 唬 | *qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ |
| 戲 | *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː |
| 巇 | *qʰra |
| 隵 | *qʰra |
| 嚱 | *qʰras |
| 盧 | *b·raː |
| 鑪 | *raː |
| 壚 | *raː |
| 籚 | *raː |
| 蘆 | *raː, *ra |
| 顱 | *b·raː |
| 髗 | *b·raː |
| 鱸 | *raː |
| 攎 | *raː |
| 櫨 | *raː |
| 轤 | *raː |
| 黸 | *raː |
| 獹 | *raː |
| 鸕 | *raː |
| 艫 | *raː |
| 纑 | *raː |
| 瀘 | *raː |
| 瓐 | *raː |
| 爐 | *raː |
| 嚧 | *raː |
| 矑 | *b·raː |
| 罏 | *raː |
| 蠦 | *raː |
| 虜 | *raːʔ |
| 擄 | *raːʔ |
| 艣 | *raːʔ |
| 鐪 | *raːʔ |
| 虖 | *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa |
| 虍 | *qʰaː |
| 雐 | *qʰʷlaː |
| 虎 | *qʰlaːʔ |
| 琥 | *qʰlaːʔ |
| 萀 | *qʰlaːʔ |
| 臚 | *b·ra |
| 廬 | *ra |
| 驢 | *b·ra |
| 藘 | *ra |
| 爈 | *ra, *ras |
| 櫖 | *ra, *ras |
| 儢 | *raʔ |
| 慮 | *ras |
| 勴 | *ras |
| 鑢 | *ras |
| 濾 | *ras |
| 攄 | *r̥ʰa |
| 處 | *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas |
| 豦 | *kas, *ɡa |
| 據 | *kas |
| 鐻 | *kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ |
| 澽 | *kas, *ɡas |
| 虛 | *kʰa, *qʰa |
| 墟 | *kʰa |
| 懅 | *ɡa |
| 蘧 | *ɡa, *ɡʷa |
| 籧 | *ɡa |
| 醵 | *ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ |
| 璩 | *ɡa |
| 虡 | *ɡaʔ |
| 遽 | *ɡas |
| 勮 | *ɡas |
| 嘘 | *qʰa, *qʰas |
| 驉 | *qʰa |
| 歔 | *qʰa |
| 魖 | *qʰa |
| 膚 | *pla |
| 虧 | *kʰʷral |
| 噱 | *ɡaɡ |
| 臄 | *ɡaɡ |
| 劇 | *ɡaɡ |
| 諕 | *qʰʷraːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas) : phonetic 虍 (OC *qʰaː) + 夂 + 几.
Etymology
In Starostin, this is reconstructed as *thaʔ in Old Chinese and subsumed under Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dhăH (/*thăH) (“to put; to place”), whence also 署 (OC *djas, “to place; to position”), Tibetan གདའ (gda', “to be; to be there”), གདན (gdan, “seat; residence”) and Burmese ထား (hta:, “to put; to place”).
With the original *–l– initial, compare Proto-Tamangic *ᴮglaː/ᴬglaː (“place”), Mizo tla, tlat (“to be; to exist; to live; to remain”) (Schuessler, 2007).
居 (OC *kɯ, *kas) may be related (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
處
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2
Definitions
處
- † place; location; spot
- part; aspect; respect
- department; office
- Classifier for locations or items of damage.
- (Cantonese, slightly dated) here
Usage notes
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 這裡 (“here”) [map] | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 斯 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 這裡、此處 more formal | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 這兒、這兒合兒 colloquial、這合兒 colloquial |
| Taiwan | 這、這裡 | |
| Tianjin | 這兒、這兒合兒 | |
| Jinan | 這裡 | |
| Xi'an | 這搭兒 | |
| Wuhan | 這裡、這塊、這塊歇 | |
| Chengdu | 這兒 | |
| Yangzhou | 這塊 | |
| Hefei | 這塊、這蒿子 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 呢度、呢處 |
| Hong Kong | 呢度、呢處 | |
| Taishan | 該、該處、該埞 | |
| Yangjiang | 該、該處、該處塗 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 箇𥚃 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 這仔 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 這位 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 這位、這息 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 這位 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 這位、這位項 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 這位 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 這位、這 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 這裡 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 只塊、只裡、租塊 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 遮、這帶、這跡、這位、這搭 |
| Quanzhou | 遮、這帶、這跡、這位、這搭 | |
| Zhangzhou | 遮、這帶、這位、這位仔 | |
| Taipei | 遮 | |
| Kaohsiung | 遮 | |
| Tainan | 遮 | |
| Taichung | 遮 | |
| Hsinchu | 遮 | |
| Lukang | 遮 | |
| Sanxia | 遮 | |
| Yilan | 遮 | |
| Kinmen | 遮 | |
| Magong | 遮 | |
| Penang | 這落 | |
| Philippines (Manila) | 遮、這搭 | |
| Chaozhou | 只塊 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 搿搭、搿搭塊、搿搭裡、迭搭 old-style、迭搭塊 old-style、迭搭裡 old-style |
| Suzhou | 該搭、搿搭 | |
| Wenzhou | 該頭、該柢、柢、彀、彀宕 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 咯裡、咯塊子 |
| Shuangfeng | 咯裡 | |
Compounds
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Japanese
| 処 | |
| 處 |
Kanji
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 処)
Readings
Korean
Hanja
處 • (cheo) (hangeul 처, revised cheo, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏ, Yale che)
Vietnamese
Han character
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