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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 72 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一竹木日 (MHDA) or 一木日 (MDA), four-corner 71269, composition)

  1. calendar, era

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 500, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14171
  • Dae Jaweon: page 870, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1536, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+66C6

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ
*reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *reːɡ) : phonetic  (OC *reːɡ, calendar) + semantic  (sun).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /li⁵¹/
Harbin /li⁵³/
Tianjin /li⁵³/
Jinan /li²¹/
Qingdao /li⁴²/
Zhengzhou /li²⁴/
Xi'an /li²¹/ 曆書
/li⁴⁴/ ~史
Xining /l̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /li¹³/
Lanzhou /li¹³/
Ürümqi /li²¹³/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ni³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /li³¹/
Nanjing /li⁴⁴/
Hefei /liəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /liəʔ²/
Pingyao /liʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /liəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /liɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /liəʔ³/
Hangzhou /liəʔ²/
Wenzhou /lei²¹³/
Hui Shexian /li²²/
Tunxi /le¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /li²⁴/
Xiangtan /ni²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /liʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lit̚⁵/
Taoyuan /lɑk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lek̚²/
Nanning /lek̚²²/
Hong Kong /lik̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /liʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /li²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /leʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /lek̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/lek̚/
Wang
Li
/liek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤek/
English calculate (astronomically)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7981
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*reːɡ/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. calendar
  2. era

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ryeok>yeok) (hangeul 력>, revised ryeok>yeok, McCune-Reischauer ryŏk>yŏk, Yale lyek>yek)

  1. book calendar
  2. calendar

Vietnamese

Han character

(lịch, rếch, rích, rịch)

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