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適

適

See also: 适

Translingual

Han character

適 (radical 162 辵+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜卜金月 (YYCB), four-corner 30302, composition ⿺辶啇)

References

  • KangXi: page 1263, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39076
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1759, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3877, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9069

Chinese

trad. 適
simp. 适

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (帝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
膪 *rtaːɡs, *rteːɡs
揥 *tʰeds, *teː
腣 *teː, *teːɡs
諦 *teːɡs
偙 *teːɡs
渧 *teːɡs
帝 *teːɡs
楴 *tʰeːɡs
啼 *deː
蹄 *deː
締 *deː, *deːɡs
崹 *deː
鶙 *deː
禘 *deːɡs
啻 *hljeɡs
嫡 *rteɡ, *teːɡ
摘 *rteːɡ, *tʰeːɡ
謫 *rteːɡ
讁 *rteːɡ
擿 *deɡ
蹢 *deɡ, *teːɡ
適 *tjeɡ, *hljeɡ, *teːɡ
啇 *teːɡ
滴 *teːɡ
鏑 *teːɡ
甋 *teːɡ
樀 *teːɡ, *deːɡ
敵 *deːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 適 適 適
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 章 (23) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 昔 (123) 昔 (123) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III IV
Fanqie 施隻切 之石切 都歷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiᴇk̚/ /t͡ɕiᴇk̚/ /tek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɛk̚/ /t͡ɕiɛk̚/ /tek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiæk̚/ /t͡ɕiæk̚/ /tɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiajk̚/ /ciajk̚/ /tɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiɛk̚/ /t͡ɕiɛk̚/ /tek̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭɛk̚/ /t͡ɕĭɛk̚/ /tiek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ɛk̚/ /t͡ɕi̯ɛk̚/ /tiek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shi zhi di
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 適 適 適
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shì shì shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syek › ‹ syek › ‹ tsyek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tek/ /*s-tek/ /*tek/
English scared go to go to

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 適 適 適
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 2329 2330 2332
Phonetic
component		 帝 帝 帝
Rime
group		 錫 錫 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 隻 釋 的
Old
Chinese		 /*tjeɡ/ /*hljeɡ/ /*teːɡ/

Definitions

適

  1. appropriate, suitable
  2. comfortable
  3. just (now)
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

適

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. suitable, appropiate, fit

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

適 • ‎(jeok, cheok) (hangeul 적, 척, revised jeok, cheok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk, ch'ŏk, Yale cek, chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

適 (thích, thách, thếch)

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