Zi:卅
卅 [sà] thirty (三十 sānshí); (HDZ:) (数词) 三十 (五卅运动)
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):
►saa1 卅 NUM. 〈variant:〉 s.f.f. and contr. of 三十 saam1 sap6; a.w.a. 卅呀 saa1 aa6 with the 2nd syllable being wrtn. with the Ch. char.; in slow speech p.a. saa1 aa6; usu. followed by N., M., or NUM.; coll. 【See also 呀 aa6, 廿 jaa6, 年卅晚 nin4 saa1 aa6 maan5, 卅呀 saa1 aa6】 thirty ‖ kam4 maan5 jau5 saa1 go3 jan4 lai4 soeng5 ngo5 ge3 tong4 噖晚有卅個人嚟上我嘅堂 Last night thirty people came to attend my class ‖ keoi5 saa1 ng5 seoi3 佢卅五歳 She's thirty-five years old ‖ ngo5 zing6 hai6 jau5 saa1 gei2 man4/1 gaa3 bo3, dim2 bong1 nei5 maai5 aa3 我淨係有卅幾蚊㗎噃,點幫你買啊? I've only got thirty some dollars, so how can I buy it for you?
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
The character 卅 sà ‘thirty’ (4 strokes) is an abbrev. of the old form 𠦃 (6 strokes), replacing the three horizontal lines with a single stroke.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 卅(𠦃) sà ‘thirty’ triples 十() shí ‘ten’.
Note: The reading 卅(𠦃) sà ‘thirty’ (SBGY) seems to be a contraction (合声) of 三十 sānshí ‘thirty’; cf. 卌/𠦌(𠦜) xì ‘forty’.
Compare: 廿(卄) niàn ‘twenty’; 卌/𠦌(𠦜) xì ‘forty’.
Compare: 世(㔺卋) shì ‘thirty/many years/branches (a generation)’; 葉() yè ‘leaf/leaves (of a plant)’, formerly wr. 枼(枽), and later wr. 叶.
Compare: 卉(芔) huì ‘plants/herbs/vegetation’; 艹(艸), 草(𦷣草) cǎo ‘grass’, 𦬠(茻) mǎng ‘thick grass’.
►references: Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.59.3; Mathews:5404; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:156.01; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:006.0.03
►components: 一川
►Cantonese: sa\
Shuōwén: (𠦃)
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<comp char='川' uni='5DDD' points='10,0 100,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='川' uni='5DDD' points='0,0 116,128' radical='Q K4 D1'>
<stroke type='sp' points='34,10 34,48 0,128' />
<stroke type='s' points='80,24 80,100' />
<stroke type='s' points='128,0 128,128' />
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+5345
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