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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心日心竹 (PAPH), four-corner 96027, composition)

  1. be cautious, careful, alert

References

  • KangXi: page 390, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10803
  • Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2315, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+60D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sleːɡs
*sleɡs
*ɦljeʔ
*leːɡs, *leɡ
*leɡs
*sljeɡ
*hljeɡ
*hljeɡ
*leɡ
*leɡ
*leɡ
*l̥ʰeːɡ
*l̥ʰeːɡ
*tʰeːɡ
*l̥ʰeːɡ
*sleːɡ
*sleːɡ
*sleːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/tʰek̚/
Wang
Li
/tʰiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ti
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ thek ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ˤek/
English anxious, worried

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 # 1/1
No. 15041
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰeːɡ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 儆惕
  • 夕惕
  • 夕惕若厲夕惕若厉
  • 寅憂夕惕寅忧夕惕
  • 怵惕
  • 悚惕
  • 惕勵惕励
  • 惕厲惕厉
  • 惕息
  • 惕惕
  • 惕慄惕栗
  • 戒惕
  • 朝乾夕惕朝干夕惕
  • 朝兢夕惕
  • 警惕 (jǐngtì)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(cheok) (hangeul , revised cheok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thích, rẻ, dịch)

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