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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木竹一中 (DHML), four-corner 42921, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 515, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14538
  • Dae Jaweon: page 903, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1171, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6790

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/sek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/sek̚/
Wang
Li
/siek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/siek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sek ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˤek/
English split (v.)

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. 13316
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*seːɡ/

Definitions

  1. split wood
  2. break apart
  3. divide

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seok) (hangeul , revised seok, McCune-Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chiết, tích)

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