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稷

稷

Translingual

Han character

稷 (radical 115 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木田金水 (HDWCE), four-corner 26947)

  1. god of cereals
  2. minister of agriculture

References

  • KangXi: page 857, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25207
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1282, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2623, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7A37

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 稷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (畟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
稷 *sklɯɡ
畟 *sklɯɡ, *skʰrɯɡ
溭 *sɡrɯɡ
謖 *sqʰruɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 稷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 子力切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡siek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sik̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siək̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 稷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsik ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ək/
English millet (Setaria italica)

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 稷
Reading # 1/1
No. 1170
Phonetic
component		 畟
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 即
Old
Chinese		 /*sklɯɡ/

Definitions

稷

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Compounds

  • 社稷為墟／社稷为墟
  • 稷下
  • 稷下先生
  • 稷下學派／稷下学派
  • 稷神
  • 稷蜂社鼠
  • 芒稷
  • 黍稷

Japanese

Kanji

稷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
稷
きび
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Noun

稷 ‎(hiragana きび, katakana キビ, romaji kibi)

  1. Alternative form of 黍

Korean

Hanja

稷 • ‎(jik) (hangeul 직, revised jik, McCune-Reischauer chik, Yale cik)

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