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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月卜廿心 (BYTP), four-corner 70236)

References

  • KangXi: page 996, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29951
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2118, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+81C6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qrɯːɡs, *qɯ
*qɯ, *qɯʔ, *qɯl
*qɯʔ, *qɯɡ
*qɯɡs
*qɯɡs
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯɡ) : semantic  (body) + phonetic  (OC *qɯɡs).

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tai *ʔɤkᴰ (chest), whence Thai อก (òk). Cognate with (OC *qɯɡs, “mind”) and (OC *qɯɡ, “to remember”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔik̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔiək̚/
Wang
Li
/ĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔik ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)ək/
English bosom

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. 15158
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯɡ/

Definitions

  1. chest, breast, bosom
  2. thought

Compounds

  • 傾吐胸臆倾吐胸臆
  • 直抒胸臆
  • 胸臆 (xiōngyì)
  • 臆度
  • 臆想
  • 臆想狂
  • 臆想症
  • 臆斷臆断
  • 臆測臆测
  • 臆見臆见
  • 臆造 (yìzào)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mind; thought
  2. repress one's mind
  3. expect many things

Readings

Compounds

  • 臆出
  • 臆度
  • 臆面
  • 臆見
  • 臆説
  • 臆測

References

  • New Nelson: 2001
  • Halpern: 765
  • Halpern Learners: 530
  • Heisig: 632
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4k13.5
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Korean

Hanja

(eok) (hangeul , revised eok, McCune-Reischauer ŏk, Yale ek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ức)

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