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Translingual

Han character

(radical 128 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜戈日 (SJYIA), four-corner 13150, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 970, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29183
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2797, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8077

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjɯɡ) : semantic  (ear) + phonetic  (OC *tjɯɡ).

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)
zhí
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyik ›
Old
Chinese
/*tək/
English duties of office

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. 17252
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯɡ/

Definitions

  1. duty; profession
  2. office; post

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)

  1. employment

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chức, chắc, giấc, xắc, chếch, xức)

  • variant: "chức"
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Readings

  • Nôm: chắc, chức, giấc, thức

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999