卻

See also: 却

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 谷 + 卩 – person 卩 leaving 八 the house 口 – retreat.

Han character

卻 (radical 26 卩+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 金口尸中 (CRSL), four-corner 8762₀, composition ⿰谷卩)

1. still, but
2. to decline
3. to retreat

Derived characters

• 腳

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2867
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 317, character 2
• Unihan data for U+537B

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Chinese

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trad.		卻
simp.		却

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): què (que⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): koek³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khiok
• Min Nan (POJ): khiok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: què
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üeh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɥ̯œ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: koek³
    • Yale: keuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koek⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰœːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiok
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kiog5
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiok
    • Tâi-lô: khiok
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɔk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (卻, reconstructed)
Character (卻), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 藥 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 居勺切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨɐk̚/	/ki̯ak̚/	/kiak̚/	/kiɐk̚/	/kɨak̚/	/kĭak̚/	/kiɑk̚/
Character (卻), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 藥 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 去約切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɨɐk̚/	/kʰi̯ak̚/	/kʰiak̚/	/kʰiɐk̚/	/kʰɨak̚/	/kʰĭak̚/	/kʰiɑk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (卻, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
卻								què								‹ khjak ›								/*[k]ʰak/								decline, refuse
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
卻					10739					郤					鐸					0					腳					/*kaɡ/
卻					10740					郤					鐸					0										/*kʰaɡ/

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

卻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kun: しりぞく (shirizoku), しりぞける (shirizokeru), かえって (kaette)

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Korean

Hanja

卻 (gak) (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卻 (khước)

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