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爵

爵

Translingual

Han character

爵 (radical 87 爪+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月田中戈 (BWLI), four-corner 20746, composition ⿳爫罒𡬠)

References

  • KangXi: page 689, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19710
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2037, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7235

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
釂 *ʔsewɢs
皭 *ʔsewɢs, *zewɢ
爝 *ʔsewɢs, *ʔsewɢ, *zewɢ
爵 *ʔsewɢ
嚼 *zewɢ
穱 *ʔsreːwɢ
灂 *zreːwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即略切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siak̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jue
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jué
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ewk/
English nobility, rank

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 爵
Reading # 1/1
No. 7256
Phonetic
component		 爵
Rime
group		 藥
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 爵
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsewɢ/

Noun

爵

  1. feudal title or rank

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

爵

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

爵 • ‎(jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune-Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爵 (tước)

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