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See also: and 驿

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified 驿

Han character

(radical 187 +13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田中十 (SFWLJ), four-corner 76341, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1446, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45030
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1971, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4579, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+9A5B

Chinese

trad.
simp. 驿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔl'aːɡs, *l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
*l̥ʰaːɡ
*l̥ʰaːɡ
*l'aːɡ
*l'aːɡ
*l'aːɡ, *rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
*rlaːɡ
*rlaːɡ
*rlaːɡ
*rlaːɡ
*rlaːɡ, *hljaɡ
*hljaɡ
*laːɡ
*neb, *laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ
*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laːɡ) : semantic  (horse) + phonetic  (OC *neb, *laːɡ).

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
/*lAk/
English post-horse

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. 15141
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*laːɡ/

Noun

  1. relay station (for posting horses)
  2. (Min Nan) train station, bus stop, or similar

Compounds

  • 傳驛传驿
  • 水郵山驛水邮山驿
  • 水驛水驿
  • 臨江驛临江驿
  • 辛安驛辛安驿
  • 郵驛邮驿
  • 鄭驛留賓郑驿留宾
  • 館驛馆驿 (guǎnyì)
  • 馬道驛马道驿
  • 馳驛驰驿
  • 駱驛骆驿
  • 駱驛不絕骆驿不绝
  • 驛丞驿丞
  • 驛亭驿亭
  • 驛使驿使 (yìshǐ)
  • 驛傳驿传
  • 驛券驿券
  • 驛吏驿吏
  • 驛樓驿楼
  • 驛站驿站 (yìzhàn)
  • 驛遞驿递
  • 驛館驿馆
  • 驛馬驿马
  • 驛馬車驿马车
  • 驛驛驿驿

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

Readings

Kanji in this term
えき
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Noun

(kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji , hiragana えき, romaji eki)

  1. Kyūjitai spelling of : station (train, underground/subway)

Korean

Hanja

(yeok) (hangeul )

Noun

(yeok) (hangeul )

  1. Hanja form? of , “(railway, subway) station”.

Vietnamese

Character

Readings