邪

邪 (radical 163, 邑+4 in Chinese, 邑+5 in Japanese, 7 strokes in Chinese, 8 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 一竹弓中 (MHNL), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿰牙⻏)

• KangXi: page 1269, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39319
• Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3758, character 4
• Unihan data for U+90AA

Historical forms of the character 邪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaː, *laː) : phonetic 牙 (OC *ŋraː) + semantic 邑 (“town; city”).

The semantic component suggests that this character was originally used in a place name, which Shuowen suggests to be 琅邪. It was later borrowed for other meanings, the most prominent being “wrong; evil” (originally written as 衺).

邪

1. wrong; evil; depraved; vicious; perverse; heterodox
2. unnatural; strange
3. disaster; calamity
4. (traditional Chinese medicine) unwholesome environmental factor; pathogenetic factor
5. ^† Alternative form of 斜 (xié, “tilted; inclined”).

邪

1. Only used in 琅邪, alternative form of 琅琊.

邪

1. ^† Alternative form of 耶 (yé, “sentence-final interrogative particle”).

   • 其正色邪？其遠而無所至極邪？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其正色邪？其远而无所至极邪？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Qí zhèng sè yé? Qí yuǎn ér wú suǒ zhì jí yé? [Pinyin]

     Is its azure the proper colour of the sky? Or is it occasioned by its distance and illimitable extent?

2. ^† The chant of labourers used for synchronized pulling, lifting, etc., similar to heigh-ho.

   • 夫治天下猶曳大木然，前者唱邪，後者唱許。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夫治天下犹曳大木然，前者唱邪，后者唱许。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 黃宗羲, 《明夷待訪錄·原臣》

     Fú zhì tiānxià yóu yè dà mù rán, qián zhě chàng yé, hòu zhě chàng xǔ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

邪

1. ^† Alternative form of 徐 (xú, “slow”).

   • 其虛其邪？既亟只且！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其虚其邪？既亟只且！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qí xū qí xú? Jì jí zhǐjū! [Pinyin]

     Is it a time for delay? The urgency is extreme!

邪

1. ^† Alternative form of 餘／余 (yú, “remainder; remaining days”).

   • 歸邪於終，事則不悖。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     归邪于终，事则不悖。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, circa 91 BCE

     Guī yú yú zhōng, shì zé bù bèi. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

邪

1. Only used in 歸邪／归邪.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. wicked
2. injustice
3. wrong

• Go-on: じゃ (ja, Jōyō)^{←じや (zya, historical)}; や (ya)
• Kan-on: しゃ (sha); や (ya)
• Kun: か (ka, 邪); よこしま (yokoshima, 邪)

• 邪魔 (じゃま) (jama)
• 風 (か)邪 (ぜ) (kaze)
• 邪気 (じゃき) (jaki)

• (evil): 奸

• (evil): 正, 義 (righteous)

邪 • (sa, ya) (hangeul 사, 야, revised sa, ya, McCune–Reischauer sa, ya, Yale sa, ya)

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邪 (tà, tá)

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