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啄

啄

啄 U+5544, 啄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5544
← 啃
[U+5543] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 啅 →
[U+5545]

Translingual

Han character

啄 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口一尸人 (RMSO), four-corner 61032, composition ⿰口豖)

  1. to peck
  2. (Cantonese) to slander

References

  • KangXi: page 194, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3801
  • Dae Jaweon: page 415, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 639, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5544

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 啄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冢 *toŋʔ
塚 *toŋʔ
涿 *rtoːɡ
琢 *rtoːɡ
啄 *rtoːɡ, *toːɡ
諑 *rtoːɡ
剢 *toːɡ
瘃 *toɡ
豖 *tʰoɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 啄 啄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 端 (5) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 屋 (3) 覺 (10)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 丁木切 竹角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tuk̚/ /ʈˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tuk̚/ /ʈᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tuk̚/ /ȶɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /təwk̚/ /ʈaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /tuk̚/ /ȶɔk̚/
Wang
Li		 /tuk̚/ /ȶɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tuk̚/ /ȶɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 du zhuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 啄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ træwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə-tˤ<r>ok/
English to peck

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 啄 啄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1620 1622
Phonetic
component		 豖 豖
Rime
group		 屋 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 斲 𣫔
Old
Chinese		 /*rtoːɡ/ /*toːɡ/

Verb

啄

  1. to peck (strike with the beak or bill)

Japanese

Kanji

啄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

啄 • ‎(tak) (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune-Reischauer t'ak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啄 (trác, trốc, chác)

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