即

See also: 卽

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 卽

Han character

即 (radical 26 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 日戈尸中 (AISL), four-corner 7772₀)

1. promptly, quickly, immediately

Derived characters

• 節

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2855
• Dae Jaweon: page 364, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 314, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5373

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		即

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí (ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chiah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik¹
    • Yale: jīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (即, reconstructed)
Character (即), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 職 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 子力切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sɨk̚/	/t͡si̯ək̚/	/t͡siək̚/	/t͡sɨk̚/	/t͡sik̚/	/t͡sĭək̚/	/t͡siek̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (即, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
即								jí								‹ tsik ›								/*[ts]ik/								go to
即								jí								‹ tsik ›								/*[ts]ik/								thereupon
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
即					5725					即					職					0					即					/*ʔsɯɡ/					甲文象即食卪非聲

Definitions

1. namely; i.e.; that is
2. prompt
3. at once
4. at present
5. even if
6. prompted (by the occasion)
7. to approach
8. to come into contact
9. to assume office
10. to draw near

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Japanese

Kanji

即

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そく (soku), しょく (shoku)
• Kun: つく (tsuku), すなわち (sunawachi), もし (moshi)

Compounds

• 即刻 (そっこく, sokkoku)
• 即時 (そくじ, sokuji)

• 即興 (そっきょう, sokkyō)
• 当意即妙 (とういそくみょう, tōisokumyō)

Adverb

即 (hiragana そく, romaji soku)

1. immediately

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Korean

Hanja

即 (jeuk) (hangeul 즉, revised jeuk, McCune-Reischauer chŭk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

即 (tức)

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