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惜

惜

Translingual

Han character

惜 (radical 61 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心廿日 (PTA), four-corner 94061, composition ⿰忄昔)

References

  • KangXi: page 391, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2313, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+60DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 惜
alt. forms 錫／锡 (sek3) Cantonese
𡃶 (sek3) Cantonese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
借 *ʔsjaːɡs, *ʔsjaːɡ
唶 *ʔsjaːɡs
藉 *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ
躤 *zjaːɡs
蜡 *zraːɡs, *sʰaːɡs
齰 *zraːɡs, *zraːɡ
醋 *sʰaːɡs
錯 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
措 *sʰaːɡs
厝 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
逪 *sʰaːɡ
剒 *sʰaːɡ
鵲 *sʰaɡ
碏 *sʰaɡ
踖 *sʰaɡ, *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
趞 *sʰaɡ
皵 *sʰaɡ, *sʰjaːɡ
舄 *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
斮 *ʔsraɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
簎 *zraːwɢ, *sʰraːɡ, *zjaːɡ
諎 *ʔsraːɡ
矠 *sʰreːɡ, *zreːɡ
庴 *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
籍 *zjaːɡ
耤 *zjaːɡ
猎 *zjaːɡ
昔 *sjaːɡ
惜 *sjaːɡ
腊 *sjaːɡ
焟 *sjaːɡ
棤 *sjaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sjaːɡ) : semantic 忄 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 昔 ‎(OC *sjaːɡ) – a feeling (of the heart).

Note that 昔 has meaning of “past, ending”, hence connotations of “feelings for the past, feeling about an ending – regret, rue”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 惜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 思積切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /siɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 惜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]Ak/
English regret; alas

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 惜
Reading # 1/1
No. 13310
Phonetic
component		 昔
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 昔
Old
Chinese		 /*sjaːɡ/

Definitions

惜

  1. pity; regret
  2. to cherish; to value greatly
  3. to love dearly
  4. to grieve
  5. to rue; to begrudge
  6. (Cantonese) to kiss

References

Japanese

Kanji

惜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. pity

Readings

Korean

Hanja

惜 • ‎(seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune-Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

惜 (tiếc, tích)

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