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Translingual

Han character

(radical 40 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十卜火水 (JYFE), four-corner 30947, composition)

  1. still, silent, quiet, desolate

References

  • KangXi: page 288, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7200
  • Dae Jaweon: page 569, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 938, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5BC2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsliw
*ʔsliw
*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*nɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*zlɯːwɢ
*ʔsluːb
*sʰlɯːɡ
*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
*ʔslɯːwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*l̥ʰɯwɢ
*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*ɦljɯwɢ
*ɦljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (house) +  (sorting beans) – quietly sorting beans at home.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/d͡zek̚/
Wang
Li
/d͡ziek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzek ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-[d]ˤiwk/
English quiet

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. 11734
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zlɯːwɢ/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. loneliness
  2. quietly
  3. mellow
  4. mature
  5. death of a priest

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(jeok) (hangeul , revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tịch)

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