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勺

勺

勺 U+52FA, 勺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52FA
← 勹
[U+52F9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勻 →
[U+52FB]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

勺 (radical 20 勹+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 心戈 (PI) or X心戈 (XPI), four-corner 27320, composition ⿹勹丶)

  1. spoon, ladle
  2. unit of volume

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 150, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2495
  • Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 254, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+52FA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 勺

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 勺 勺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 藥 (107) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 之若切 市若切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨɐk̚/ /d͡ʑɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɐk̚/ /d͡ʑiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiɑk̚/ /d͡ʑiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cɨak̚/ /d͡ʑɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiak̚/ /ʑiak̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭak̚/ /ʑĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ak̚/ /ʑi̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhuo shuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勺 勺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sháo zhuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyak › ‹ tsyak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-tewk/ /*tewk/
English ladle (n.) ladle (v.)

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 勺 勺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11191 11195
Phonetic
component		 勺 勺
Rime
group		 藥 藥
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 灼 妁
Old
Chinese		 /*pljewɢ/ /*bljewɢ/

Definitions

勺

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Japanese

Kanji

勺

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names) [1]

Readings

Usage notes

  1. ↑ Removed from the daily use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government in 2010.
    The Japan Times (October 21, 2009). Get set for next year's overhaul of joyo kanji. Accessed February 23, 2010.
Kanji in this term
勺
しゃく
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

勺 ‎(hiragana しゃく, romaji shaku)

  1. 18 millimeters (a tenth of a 合 (ごう) ‎(gō))
  2. 0.033 square meters (a hundredth of a tsubo)

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

勺 • ‎(jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勺 (chước, giuộc, thược, duộc)

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  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 勺
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (勺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
豹 *preːwɢs
趵 *preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥 *breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹 *ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓 *plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約 *ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚 *pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣 *pleːwɢs
瘹 *teːwɢs
芍 *ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌 *pljewɢ
灼 *pljewɢ
勺 *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴 *pljewɢ
犳 *pljewɢ
妁 *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋 *bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢 *bljewɢ
葯 *qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿 *lewɢ
肑 *preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝 *breːwɢ
的 *pleːwɢ
靮 *pleːwɢ
馰 *pleːwɢ
玓 *pleːwɢ
魡 *pleːwɢ

Pictogram (象形) : something (丶) in the spoon (勹).

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