嗇

See also: 啬

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 來 (“come”) + 㐭 (“hide”)

Han character

嗇 (radical 30 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土人田口 (GOWR), four-corner 4060₁)

1. miserly, thrifty, stingy
2. stopped up, constipated

Descendants

• 牆, 薔, 濇, 㱇, 轖

References

• KangXi: page 202, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4053
• Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 665, character 11
• Unihan data for U+55C7

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Chinese

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trad.		嗇
simp.		啬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sè (se⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sè
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: sê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: seh
    • IPA ^(key): /sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (嗇, reconstructed)
Character (嗇), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 生 (21) Final: 職 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 所力切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʃɨk̚/	/ʂi̯ək̚/	/ʃiək̚/	/ʃɨk̚/	/ʂik̚/	/ʃĭək̚/	/ʃiek̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (嗇, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
嗇								sè								‹ srik ›								/*s.rək/								reap
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
嗇					10992					嗇					職					0					色					/*srɯɡ/					象禾來之積，來亦聲

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

嗇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu), やぶさか (yabusaka)

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Korean

Hanja

嗇 (saek) (hangeul 색, revised saek, McCune-Reischauer saek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗇 (sắc)

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References

• Nom Foundation