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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土戈口一 (GIRM), four-corner 43150, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 230, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5158
  • Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 451, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+57DF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷɯːɡs
*kʷɯːɡs
*kʷɯːɡ
*ɡʷɯːɡ
*ɡʷɯːɡ
*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
*qʰʷrɯɡ
*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
*ɢʷrɯɡ
*ɢʷrɯɡ
*ɡʷrɯɡ
*ɡʷrɯɡ
*ɡʷrɯɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*kʷrɯːɡ
*qʰʷrɯːɡ
*qʷrɯɡ
*qʷɯɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /y⁵¹/
Harbin /y⁵³/
Tianjin /y⁵³/
Jinan /y²¹³/
Qingdao /y⁴²/
Zhengzhou /y³¹²/
Xi'an /y⁴⁴/
Xining /y²¹³/
Yinchuan /y¹³/
Lanzhou /y¹³/
Ürümqi /y²¹³/
Wuhan /y²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /iu³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /yəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /yaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦioʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /yʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ȵy¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /y²⁴/
Xiangtan /y²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian
Taoyuan /vet̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wek̚²/
Nanning /wek̚²²/
Hong Kong /wek̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ik̚⁵/
/hik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hek̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (135)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦwɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwik̚/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuək̚/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭwək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯wək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwik ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷrək/
English territory

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5554
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷrɯɡ/

Noun

  1. territory, district, region, land

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. range
  2. region
  3. limits
  4. stage
  5. level

Readings

Noun

(hiragana いき, romaji iki)

  1. region, level

Korean

Hanja

(yeok) (hangeul , revised yeok, McCune-Reischauer yŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(vực, bực, vác, vặc, vức)

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