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厄

厄

厄 U+5384, 厄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5384
← 厃
[U+5383] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厅 →
[U+5385]
See also: 阨

Translingual

Han character

厄 (radical 27 厂+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一尸山 (MSU), four-corner 71212, composition ⿸厂㔾)

Derived characters

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 厄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厄
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (戹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
呃 *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
阸 *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
厄 *qreːɡ
蚅 *qreːɡ
扼 *qreːɡ
軛 *qreːɡ
戹 *qreːɡ
豟 *qreːɡ
呝 *qreːɡ
軶 *qreːɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 厄
Mandarin Beijing /ɤ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɤ⁴⁴/
/nɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /nɤ⁵³/
Jinan /ŋə⁴²/
Qingdao /ɣə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɛ⁵³/
Xi'an /ŋɤ²¹/
Xining /ȵi⁴⁴/
/nɛ⁴⁴/ 新
Yinchuan /ə¹³/
Lanzhou /ɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /kɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ŋɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /ŋe³¹/
Guiyang /ŋɛ²¹/
Kunming /ə³¹/
Nanjing /əʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʐɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣaʔ²/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ŋaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ŋəʔ¹/
Suzhou /ŋəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ʔɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /a²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ŋɛʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋə/
Xiangtan /ŋæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ak̚¹/
Taoyuan /ɑk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ak̚⁵/
Nanning /ŋɐk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ak̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ik̚³²/
/eʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /aiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /eʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋɔk̚⁵/
Rime
Character 厄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 於革切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /æk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 e
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 厄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 è
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qˤ<r>[i]k/
English part of a yoke

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 厄
Reading # 1/1
No. 2707
Phonetic
component		 戹
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 戹
Old
Chinese		 /*qreːɡ/
Notes 同戹

Definitions

厄

  1. adversity, difficulty, distress

Japanese

Kanji

厄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. unlucky
  2. misfortune
  3. bad luck
  4. disaster

Readings

Noun

厄 ‎(hiragana やく, romaji yaku)

  1. bad luck, evil

Korean

Hanja

厄 • ‎(aek) (hangeul 액, revised aek, McCune-Reischauer aek, Yale ayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

厄 (ách)

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