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脊

脊

Translingual

Han character

脊 (radical 130 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火金月 (FCB), four-corner 11227)

  1. spine, backbone
  2. ridge

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 982, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29472
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2070, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+810A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 脊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 脊
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (脊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脊 *ʔseɡ
蹐 *ʔseɡ
鶺 *ʔseɡ
塉 *zeɡ
瘠 *zeɡ
膌 *zeɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 脊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 資昔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡siæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ek/
English spine, backbone

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 脊
Reading # 1/1
No. 5782
Phonetic
component		 脊
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 積
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔseɡ/

Definitions

脊

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Compounds

  • 世界屋脊 (shìjiè wūjǐ)
  • 中洋脊
  • 光脊梁
  • 單斜脊／单斜脊
  • 地脊
  • 屋脊 (wūjǐ)
  • 山脊 (shānjǐ)
  • 戳脊梁骨
  • 房脊
  • 打脊
  • 打脊匹夫
  • 打脊魍魎／打脊魍魉
  • 書脊／书脊
  • 脊檁／脊檩
  • 脊百合
  • 脊神經／脊神经
  • 脊索
  • 脊索動物／脊索动物
  • 脊背
  • 脊髓 (jǐsuǐ)
  • 裡脊肉／里脊肉
  • 豎起脊梁／竖起脊梁
  • 躥房越脊／蹿房越脊
  • 露脊鯨／露脊鲸
  • 飛簷走脊／飞簷走脊

References

Japanese

Kanji

脊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

脊 • ‎(cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

脊 (tích)

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