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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火手一金 (VFQMC), four-corner 25986, composition)

  1. spin
  2. achievements

References

  • KangXi: page 936, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27845
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3441, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7E3E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsreːɡs, *ʔsreːɡ
*ʔseɡs, *ʔseɡ
*sʰeɡs, *sʰeɡ
*sʰeːɡs, *raːds
*sʰeɡs
*sʰeɡs
*zeɡs
*zraːd, *zreːɡ
*ʔsraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ, *zreːɡ
*sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
*sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
*ʔsreːɡ
*ʔsreːɡ
*ʔsreːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sʰeɡ
*ʔsreːɡ
*ʔsreːɡ
*sʰreːɡ
*sʰreːɡ
*sʰreːɡ
*sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
*sʰreːɡ, *sreːɡ
*zreːɡ
鰿 *zreːɡ, *ʔseɡ
*sreːɡ
*ʔseɡ
*ʔseɡ
*sʰeɡ
*sʰeɡ
*ʔseːɡ
*ʔseːɡ
*ʔseːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseːɡ) : semantic  (thread) + phonetic  (OC *ʔsreːɡ) – to spin thread.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡sek̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡siek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡siek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsek › ‹ tsek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]ˤek/ /*[ts]ˤek/
English twist, spin achieve; achievement

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. 1782
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔseːɡ/

Definitions

  1. achievement; accomplishment

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeok) (hangeul , revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, Yale cek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tích)

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