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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜日十 (VFYAJ), four-corner 21946, composition)

  1. graceful, delicate
  2. spacious

References

  • KangXi: page 928, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27590
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3412, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+7DBD

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*deːwɢs
*rneːwɢs
*rteːwɢs
*rteːwɢs, *rdeːwɢ
*rtʰeːwɢs, *rtʰeːwɢ
*rtʰeːwɢs, *rtʰeːwɢ
*rdeːwɢs
*tʰeːwɢs
*deːwʔ, *deːwɢs, *rneːwɢ
*tʰewɢ, *rtʰeːwɢ
*tjewɢ
*tʰjewɢ
*tʰjewɢ
*tʰjewɢ
*rteːwɢ
*rteːwɢ
*rteːwɢ
*rteːwɢ
*rteːwɢ, *rtʰeːwɢ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuo⁵⁵/
/ʈ͡ʂʰuo⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰɑu²¹/
/t͡sʰɑu²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuə²¹³/
/ʈ͡ʂʰɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃʰuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuo²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fʰuo²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuə¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰə¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰuo²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰo³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰo²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰo³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuaʔ²/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰɑʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰo²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰok̚⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœk̚³/
Nanning /t͡sʰœk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰœk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sɔk̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiak̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chuò
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhak ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰawk/
English indulgent, gentle

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. 17762
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰjewɢ/

Adjective

  1. (literary) ample; spacious

Verb

  1. (literary) to grab

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(xước)

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