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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 62 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日戈 (YAI), four-corner 03650, composition)

  1. yellow clay

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 413, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11615
  • Dae Jaweon: page 756, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1409, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6220

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
*tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
*tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
*tʰjɯɡs
*dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cik̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiək̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyik ›
Old
Chinese
/*tək/
English adhere (?)

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. 17254
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯɡ/
Notes 1979

Definitions

  1. a sword
  2. potter’s clay
  3. to gather
  4. old alternate of

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sword
  2. potter's clay
  3. to gather

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(si) (hangeul , revised si, McCune-Reischauer si, Yale si)

  1. clay