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釋

釋

See also: 释

Translingual

Traditional 釋
Shinjitai 釈
Simplified 释

Han character

釋 (radical 165 釆+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹木田中十 (HDWLJ), four-corner 26941, composition ⿰釆睪)

References

  • KangXi: page 1290, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40129
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1791, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3900, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+91CB

Chinese

trad. 釋
simp. 释

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (睪) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斁 *ʔl'aːɡs, *l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
籜 *l̥ʰaːɡ
蘀 *l̥ʰaːɡ
鐸 *l'aːɡ
凙 *l'aːɡ
襗 *l'aːɡ, *rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
擇 *rlaːɡ
澤 *rlaːɡ
鸅 *rlaːɡ
蠌 *rlaːɡ
檡 *rlaːɡ, *hljaɡ
釋 *hljaɡ
繹 *laːɡ
睪 *neb, *laːɡ
譯 *laːɡ
嶧 *laːɡ
懌 *laːɡ
驛 *laːɡ
醳 *laːɡ
圛 *laːɡ
墿 *laːɡ
燡 *laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljaɡ) : semantic 釆 ‎(“pick”) + phonetic 睪 ‎(OC *neb, *laːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 釋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 施隻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 釋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥Ak/
English release; dissolve

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 釋
Reading # 1/1
No. 15134
Phonetic
component		 睪
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 釋
Old
Chinese		 /*hljaɡ/

Definitions

釋

  1. to explain; to elucidate
  2. to release
  3. (Buddhism) Short for 釋迦牟尼／释迦牟尼 (Shìjiāmóuní, “Shakyamuni”).
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

釋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 釈)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

釋 • ‎(seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune-Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

釋 (thích)

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