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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +19, 27 strokes, cangjie input 廿水金 (TEC), four-corner 37109)

  1. chisel
  2. bore, pierce

References

  • KangXi: page 1327, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41088
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1829, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4277, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+947F

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ
*ʔsoːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ) : semantic  (metal) + phonetic 𥽿.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (15) (13) (15)
Final () (3) (103) (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zəwk̚/ /t͡sak̚/ /d͡zak̚/
Li
Rong
/d͡zuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/d͡zuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱuk̚/ /t͡sɑk̚/ /d͡zʱɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zuo zuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
záo záo
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzak › ‹ dzowk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz]ˤawk/ /*[dz]ˤawk/
English chisel chisel

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 # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 18070 18072 18073 18074
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3 3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsoːwɢ/ /*zoːwɢ/ /*zoːwɢ/ /*zoːwɢ/

Definitions

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Japanese

鑿(nomi)

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana のみ, romaji nomi)

  1. chisel

Korean

Hanja

(chak, jo) (hangeul 착, , revised chak, jo, McCune-Reischauer ch'ak, cho, Yale chak, co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tạc, toạc)

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