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激

激

Translingual

Han character

激 (radical 85 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水竹尸大 (EHSK), four-corner 38140, composition ⿰氵敫)

References

  • KangXi: page 654, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18438
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1760, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6FC0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 激

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礉 *kʰreːw, *kʰreːwɢs
邀 *qlew, *kleːw
憿 *kleːw
徼 *kleːw, *kleːwɢs
儌 *kleːwʔ, *kleːwʔ
璬 *kleːwʔ
皦 *kleːwʔ
繳 *kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ
敫 *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ
譥 *kleːwɢs
激 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ
噭 *kleːwɢs
獥 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
鸄 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
墽 *kʰleːw
竅 *kʰleːwɢs
覈 *ɡleːd, *ɡreːɡ
燩 *kʰreːwɢ, *kʰleːwɢ
檄 *ɡleːwɢ
薂 *ɡleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 敫 ‎(OC *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ) – (of water) to swash.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 激
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/ 叫雨～著了
/t͡ɕi⁵³/ 感～
Tianjin /t͡ɕi²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕi²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕie³¹/
/t͡ɕi³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕi²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /liəʔ²/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕi⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kit̚¹/
Taoyuan /kit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kek̚⁵/
Nanning /kek̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kik̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ki⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kek̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kek̚⁵/
Rime
Character 激 激
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 古弔切 古歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /keuH/ /kek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /keuH/ /kek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /keuH/ /kɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛwH/ /kɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /keuH/ /kek̚/
Wang
Li		 /kieuH/ /kiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kieuH/ /kiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiào ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 激
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤewk/
English dam up (water)

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 激 激
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6394 6406
Phonetic
component		 敫 敫
Rime
group		 豹 藥
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 叫 激
Old
Chinese		 /*kleːwɢs/ /*kleːwɢ/

Definitions

激

  1. (of water currents) to swash; to surge; to dash
  2. rapid; acute; fierce; strong
  3. drastic; radical; extreme
  4. to excite; to arouse; to incite
  5. resounding; reverberating; aroused
  6. (Cantonese) brilliant; great; cool
  7. to restrain; to check
  8. to chill (something by dipping it in cold water)
  9. to fall ill from getting wet
  10. violently; fiercely; quickly
  11. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

激

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

激 • ‎(gyeok) (hangeul 격, revised gyeok, McCune-Reischauer kyŏk, Yale kyek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

激 (váng, khích, kích)

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