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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水竹X火 (EHXF), four-corner 37127)

  1. land impregnated with salt from the tide

References

  • KangXi: page 649, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18247
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1059, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1743, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6F5F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sjaːʔ
*sjaːʔ, *sjaːɡs
*sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
*hjaɡ
*sjaːɡ
*sjaːɡ
*sjaːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/siæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siajk̚/
Li
Rong
/siɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjek ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-qʰAk/
English salty soil

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. 13436
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sjaːɡ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana かた, romaji kata)

  1. lagoon

Korean

Hanja

(seok)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: seok, McCune-Reischauer: sŏk, Yale: sek)
  • Name (hangeul): 개펄 (revised: gaepeol, McCune-Reischauer: kaep'ǒl)
  1. tidal flats

References