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燭

燭

See also: 烛

Translingual

Han character

燭 (radical 86 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火田中戈 (FWLI), four-corner 96827, composition ⿰火蜀)

References

  • KangXi: page 685, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19480
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1098, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2241, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+71ED

Chinese

trad. 燭
simp. 烛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蜀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
襡 *toːʔ, *toːɡs, *doːʔ, *doːɡ, *djoɡ
噣 *toːɡs, *tuɡs, *rtoːɡ, *tjoɡ
斣 *toːɡs
歜 *sdoːmʔ, *tʰjoɡ
斀 *rtoːɡ
孎 *rtoːɡ, *toɡ
濁 *rdoːɡ
鐲 *rdoːɡ, *zroːɡ, *djoɡ
鸀 *rdoːɡ, *tjoɡ
擉 *sʰroːɡ
獨 *doːɡ
髑 *doːɡ
韣 *doːɡ, *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
斸 *toɡ
钃 *toɡ
欘 *toɡ
躅 *doɡ
蠋 *doɡ, *tjoɡ
燭 *tjoɡ
囑 *tjoɡ
矚 *tjoɡ
屬 *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
属 *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
蠾 *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
觸 *tʰjoɡ
臅 *tʰjoɡ
觕 *sʰlaː, *zlaːʔ, *tʰjoɡ
蜀 *djoɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 燭
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂu²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡su⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂu²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂu²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sou²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂv̩⁵³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂu¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fu³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡səu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡su³¹/
Guiyang /t͡su²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂu³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂuʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡suʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡suəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡suʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂəu²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂəɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡suʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡suk̚¹/
Taoyuan /tʃuk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sok̚⁵/
Nanning /t͡suk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡suk̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡siɔk̚³²/
/t͡sik̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡suɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sy²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sek̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sok̚⁵/
/t͡siak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 燭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 燭 (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之欲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuawk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiok̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭwok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyowk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tok/
English torch

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 燭
Reading # 1/1
No. 11828
Phonetic
component		 蜀
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 燭
Old
Chinese		 /*tjoɡ/

Definitions

燭

  1. candle, taper
  2. to shine, to illuminate

Japanese

Kanji

燭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 蝋燭 (ろうそく, rōsoku)

Korean

Hanja

燭 • ‎(chok) (hangeul 촉, revised chok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ok, Yale chok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燭 (đuốc, chúc)

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