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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜人大 (EYOK), four-corner 30147, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 628, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17586
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1029, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1658, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6DB2

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*laːɡs
*laːɡs
*ʔsleːɡ
*ʔsleːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laːɡ) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *laːɡs) – a liquid, like water.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rjak.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/jiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/iæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiajk̚/
Li
Rong
/iɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/jĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ yek ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɢrAk/
English fluid

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. 15003
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*laːɡ/

Definitions

  1. liquid; fluid
    /       bodily fluid
  2. sap; juice

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. liquid

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
えき
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (yek, liquid).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana えき, romaji eki)

  1. liquid

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(aek) (hangeul , revised aek, McCune-Reischauer aek, Yale ayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(dịch, giá)

  1. sap, juice, liquid, fluid