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索

索

Translingual

Han character

索 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十月女戈火 (JBVIF), four-corner 40903, composition ⿳十冖糸)

  1. large rope, cable
  2. rules, laws
  3. to demand, to exact
  4. to search, inquire
  5. isolated

References

  • KangXi: page 918, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27306
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1349, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3369, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7D22

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 索

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (索) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
索 *slaːɡ, *sraːɡ, *sreːɡ
溹 *slaːɡ, *sraːɡ, *sreːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 索 索 索
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 生 (21) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103) 陌 (115) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I III II
Fanqie 蘇各切 山戟切 山責切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sɑk̚/ /ʃˠiæk̚/ /ʃˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sɑk̚/ /ʃᵚiak̚/ /ʃᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɑk̚/ /ʃiak̚/ /ʃɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sak̚/ /ʂiajk̚/ /ʂəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /sɑk̚/ /ʃiɐk̚/ /ʃɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /sɑk̚/ /ʃĭɐk̚/ /ʃæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sɑk̚/ /ʂiɐk̚/ /ʂæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suo shi she
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 索 索
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 suǒ suǒ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sak › ‹ sak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤak/ /*[s]ˤak/
English twist a rope search (v.)

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 索 索 索
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12191 12193 12195
Phonetic
component		 索 索 索
Rime
group		 鐸 鐸 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 索 𡩡 栜
Old
Chinese		 /*slaːɡ/ /*sraːɡ/ /*sreːɡ/

Noun

索

  1. rope

Verb

索

  1. to search

Adjective

索

  1. (Cantonese) beautiful, pretty, hot, sexually attractive (esp. young girls)

Japanese

Kanji

索

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. string, thread

Readings

Korean

Hanja

索 • ‎(saek, sak) (hangeul 색, 삭, revised saek, sak, McCune-Reischauer saek, sak, Yale sayk, sak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

索 (sách, tác, xách)

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