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卻
卻
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See also: 却
Translingual
Han character
卻 (radical 26 卩+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 金口尸中 (CRSL), four-corner 87620, composition ⿰谷卩)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 159, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2867
- Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 317, character 2
- Unihan data for U+537B
Chinese
| trad. | 卻 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 却 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 卻
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (郤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 腳 | *kaɡ |
| 脚 | *kaɡ |
| 卻 | *kaɡ, *kʰaɡ |
| 却 | *kʰaɡ |
| 谻 | *kraɡ, *kraɡ |
| 郤 | *kʰraɡ |
| 綌 | *kʰraɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 谷 + 卩 – person 卩 leaving 八 the house 口 – retreat.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
- Wade-Giles: ch'üeh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰɥ̯œ⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: koek3
- Yale: keuk
- Cantonese Pinyin: koek8
- IPA (key): /kʰœːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiok
- Hakka Romanization System: kiog`
- Hagfa Pinyim: kiog5
- IPA: /kʰi̯ok̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiok
- Tâi-lô: khiok
- Phofsit Daibuun: qiog
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɔk̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 卻 | 卻 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 藥 (107) | 藥 (107) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 居勺切 | 去約切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɨɐk̚/ | /kʰɨɐk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kiɐk̚/ | /kʰiɐk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kiɑk̚/ | /kʰiɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kɨak̚/ | /kʰɨak̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/kiak̚/ | /kʰiak̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/kĭak̚/ | /kʰĭak̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ki̯ak̚/ | /kʰi̯ak̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jue | que |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 卻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
què |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ khjak › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[k]ʰak/ |
| English | decline, refuse |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
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| Character | 卻 | 卻 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 10739 | 10740 |
| Phonetic component |
郤 | 郤 |
| Rime group |
鐸 | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
腳 | |
| Old Chinese |
/*kaɡ/ | /*kʰaɡ/ |
Definitions
卻
- † to withdraw; to retreat
- † to drive back (enemy)
- † to decline; to refuse
- †(particle placed after monosyllabic verbs) to do away with
- (literary, only sentence-medially) but; yet; however
Compounds
References
- (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
- (Min Nan) “Entry #4718”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Korean
Hanja
卻 • (gak) (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)
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Vietnamese
Han character
卻 (khước)
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