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則
則
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See also: 则
Translingual
Han character
則 (radical 18 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月金中弓 (BCLN), four-corner 62800, composition ⿰貝刂)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 139, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1994
- Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 340, character 6
- Unihan data for U+5247
Chinese
| trad. | 則 | |
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| simp. | 则 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 則
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| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (則) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 廁 | *sʰrɯɡs, *sʰrɯɡ |
| 則 | *ʔsɯːɡ |
| 賊 | *zɯːɡ |
| 鰂 | *zɯːɡ |
| 鱡 | *zɯːɡ |
| 蠈 | *zɯːɡ |
| 側 | *ʔsrɯɡ |
| 萴 | *ʔsrɯɡ, *zrɯɡ |
| 測 | *sʰrɯɡ |
| 惻 | *sʰrɯɡ |
| 崱 | *zrɯɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 貝 (“shellfish”) + 刂 (“knife”) – a shellfish and knife.
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zak1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chet
- Min Dong (BUC): cáik
- Min Nan (POJ): chak / chek
- Wu (Wiktionary): tseq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ
- Wade-Giles: tsê2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzer
- IPA (key): /t͡sɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zak1
- Yale: jāk
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzak7
- IPA (key): /t͡sɐk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chet
- Hakka Romanization System: zed`
- Hagfa Pinyim: zed5
- IPA: /t͡set̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cáik
- IPA (key): /t͡saiʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chak
- Tâi-lô: tsak
- Phofsit Daibuun: zag
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
- Tâi-lô: tsik
- Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tseq (T4)
- IPA (key): /t͡səʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 則 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡sɤ³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/t͡sai²⁴/ /t͡sɤ²⁴/ |
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| Tianjin | /t͡sɤ⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan |
/t͡sə²¹³/ /t͡sei²¹³/ |
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| Qingdao |
/t͡sə⁴²/ /t͡se⁴²/ |
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| Zhengzhou | /t͡sɛ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡sei²¹/ | |
| Xining | /t͡sɨ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡sə¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡sə³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡sɤ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sɤ²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡se³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡sɛ²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡sə³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡səʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡səʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /t͡sʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡saʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡səʔ⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /t͡səʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡səʔ⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡se²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡sɛʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡sa⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sə²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /t͡sæ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sɛʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡set̚¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /t͡set̚²²/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sɐk̚⁵/ |
| Nanning | /t͡sɐk̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sɐk̚⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /t͡sik̚³²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡saiʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sɛ²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡sek̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/t͡sek̚⁵/ /t͡sɔk̚⁵/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 則 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 子德切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡sək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ze |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
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| Character | 則 | 則 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
zé | zé |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tsok › | ‹ tsok › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[ts]ˤək/ | /*[ts]ˤək/ |
| English | then | rule, pattern |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 則 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16595 |
| Phonetic component |
則 |
| Rime group |
職 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
則 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔsɯːɡ/ |
Definitions
則
- rule; law; regulation
- standard; example
- to follow an example
- Classifier for news and writings: item
- conjunction used to indicate sequence of events; and
- conjunction used to indicate cause and effect; so; thus
- conjunction used to indicate contrast; but; on the other hand
- conjunction used between two identical words to indicate concession; it is ... but it ...
- particle used as the copula
- particle used after numerals to list reasons
Compounds
Derived terms from 則
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 則 – see 才 (“(Min Nan)”). (This character, 則, is a variant form of 才.) |
Japanese
Kanji
則
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Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 則 |
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そく Grade: 5 |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 則 (tsok, “rule”).
Pronunciation
Counter
則 (hiragana そく, romaji -soku)
- counter for rules
Noun
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
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| 則 |
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のり Grade: 5 |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
References
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
則 • (chik, cheuk) (hangeul 칙, 측, revised chik, cheuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'ik, ch'ŭk)
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Vietnamese
Han character
則 (tắc)
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