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執

執

See also: 执

Translingual

Han character

執 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土十大弓戈 (GJKNI), four-corner 45417, composition ⿰幸丸)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 231, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5193
  • Dae Jaweon: page 467, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 457, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+57F7

Chinese

trad. 執
simp. 执

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (執) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
騺 *tibs
摯 *tjibs
贄 *tjibs
鷙 *tjibs
墊 *tiːms, *diːb
慹 *tjeb, *ndiːb, *sdib, *tjib
謺 *tjeb
褺 *diːb
蓻 *stib
縶 *tib
漐 *tʰib
蟄 *dib
執 *tjib
瓡 *tjib

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjib) : phonetic 幸 ‎(OC *ɡreːŋʔ) + semantic 丮; in present form 丮 has been replaced by 丸.

also Pictogram (象形) : arrest

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 執
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之入切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cip̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 執
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]ip/
English seize

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 執
Reading # 1/1
No. 17290
Phonetic
component		 執
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 執
Old
Chinese		 /*tjib/
Notes 甲金文象梏人雙手，幸象梏非聲

Verb

執

  1. to hold in the hand
  2. to keep
  3. to carry out
  4. (Cantonese) to pick up
    執手尾／执手尾
    我想攀登火山，執塊石頭用嚟煎蛋 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我想攀登火山，执块石头用嚟煎蛋 [Cantonese, simp.]
    From: 許冠傑, 最緊要好玩
    ngo5 soeng2 paan1 dang1 fo2 saan1, zap1 faai3 sek6 tau4 jung6 lai4 zin1 daan2 [Jyutping]
    I want to climb a volcano, get a rock, and use it to fry an egg
  5. (Cantonese) to clean up, to tidy up

Japanese

Kanji

執

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 確執 (かくしつ, kakushitsu)
  • 我執 (がしゅう, gashū)
  • 固執 (こしゅう, koshū)
  • 執意 (しつい, shitsui)
  • 執権 (しっけん, shikken)
  • 執行 (しっこう, shikkō)
  • 執政 (しっせい, shissei)
  • 執事 (しつじ, shitsuji)
  • 執刀 (しっとう, shittō)
  • 執務 (しつむ, shitsumu)
  • 執拗 (しつよう, shitsuyō)
  • 執心 (しゅうしん, shūshin)
  • 執着 (しゅうちゃく, shūchaku)
  • 執念 (しゅうねん, shūnen)
  • 偏執 (へんしつ, henshitsu)
  • 妄執 (もうしゅう, mōshū)

Proper noun

執 ‎(hiragana まもる, romaji Mamoru)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

執 • ‎(jip) (hangeul 집, revised jip, McCune-Reischauer chip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

執 (chấp, chắp, chặp, chập, chợp, chuụp, giập, giộp, giúp, xắp, xấp, xúp, chộp, chụp, xóp, xụp)

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