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蝕
蝕
Translingual
Han character
蝕 (radical 142 虫+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈中一戈 (OILMI), four-corner 85736)
References
- KangXi: page 1089, character 10
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33264
- Dae Jaweon: page 1555, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2864, character 8
- Unihan data for U+8755
Chinese
| trad. | 蝕 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 蚀 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (食) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 飤 | *ljɯɡs |
| 食 | *lɯɡs, *ɦljɯɡ |
| 蝕 | *ɦljɯɡ |
| 飾 | *hljɯɡ |
| 飭 | *l̥ʰɯɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
- Wade-Giles: shih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
- IPA (key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sik6, sit6
- Yale: sihk, siht
- Cantonese Pinyin: sik9, sit9
- IPA (key): /sɪk̚²/, /siːt̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sa̍t
- Hakka Romanization System: sad
- Hagfa Pinyim: sad6
- IPA: /sat̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍h / si̍t
- Tâi-lô: si̍h / si̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: sih, sit
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕit̚⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiʔ²⁴/, /ɕit̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiʔ¹²¹/, /ɕit̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕit̚⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiʔ⁴/, /ɕit̚⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 蝕 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʂʐ̩³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /ʂʐ̩⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /ʂʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʃz̩⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʂʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂʐ̩¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʂʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /sz̩²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu |
/sz̩³¹/ /se³¹/ |
|
| Guiyang | /sz̩²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂʐ̩³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂʐ̩ʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /ʂəʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /səʔ⁵⁴/ |
| Pingyao | /ʂʌʔ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /səʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zəʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /zəʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /zəʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /zei²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕi²²/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕi⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʂʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sɨʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sat̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃït̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sek̚²/ |
| Nanning | /sek̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /sek̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/sik̚⁵/ /sit̚⁵/ 腐~ /siʔ⁵/ 消~ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /sɛiʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /si²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /siʔ⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/t͡sia³³/ 日~ /ti³³/ 消~ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蝕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) |
| Final (韻) | 職 (134) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 乗力切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʑɨk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʑɨk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʑiek̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʑik̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/d͡ʑiək̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/d͡ʑĭək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/d͡ʑʰi̯ək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shí |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蝕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shí |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ zyik › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mə-lək/ |
| English | (eat:) eclipse |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蝕 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11478 |
| Phonetic component |
食 |
| Rime group |
職 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
|
| Old Chinese |
/*ɦljɯɡ/ |
Definitions
蝕
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Compounds
References
Japanese

蝕
Noun
蝕 (hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)
Kanji
蝕
Readings
Compounds
- 皆既蝕 (かいきしょく, kaikishoku): total eclipse
- 月蝕 (げっしょく, gesshoku): lunar eclipse
- 蝕甚 (しょくじん, shokujin): maximum eclipse
- 侵蝕 (しんしょく, shinshoku): erosion, corrosion
- 浸蝕 (しんしょく, shinshoku): erosion, corrosion (by water)
- 日蝕 (にっしょく, nisshoku): solar eclipse
- 腐蝕 (ふしょく, fushoku): corrosion
Korean
Hanja
蝕 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune-Reischauer sik, Yale sik)
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Vietnamese
Han character
蝕 (thực)
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