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役

役

See also: 伇

Translingual

Han character

役 (radical 60 彳+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹弓水 (HOHNE), four-corner 27247, composition ⿰彳殳)

  1. service
  2. servant, laborer
  3. to serve

References

  • KangXi: page 365, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10057
  • Dae Jaweon: page 685, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 814, character 23
  • Unihan data for U+5F79

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 役

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 役
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (役) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
椺 *ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ
役 *ɢʷeɡ
疫 *ɢʷeɡ
垼 *ɢʷeɡ
炈 *ɢʷeɡ
鈠 *ɢʷeɡ
豛 *ɢʷeɡ
坄 *doː, *leɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 役
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /i²⁴/
Xining /ji²⁴/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /y²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /i³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦioʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /yʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /y²⁴/
Xiangtan /y²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /yʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /it̚⁵/
Taoyuan /ʒït̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jek̚²/
Nanning /jek̚²²/
Hong Kong /jik̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ik̚⁵/
/iaʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /i²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiaʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ia³³/
/zi³⁵/ 俗
Rime
Character 役
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 昔 (124)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 營隻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jwiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iuæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /iuɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 役
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ywek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷek/
English war expedition; service

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 役
Reading # 1/1
No. 15006
Phonetic
component		 役
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 役
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷeɡ/

Definitions

役

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References

Japanese

Kanji

役

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. service

Readings

Noun

役 ‎(hiragana やく, romaji yaku)

  1. role, service, use

Korean

Hanja

役 • ‎(yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune-Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

役 (dịch, việc)

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