執

See also: 执

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 幸 + semantic 丮; in present form 丮 has been replaced by 丸.

also Pictogram (象形): arrest

Han character

執 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土十大弓戈 (GJKNI), four-corner 4541₇, composition ⿰幸丸)

Derived terms

• 蓻, 𢄢, 摯, 𡠗, 蟄, 鷙, 騺, 墊, 慹, 𩅀, 䙝, 𡪐, 謺, 𣊓, 䠟, 𦎷

References

• KangXi: page 231, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5193
• Dae Jaweon: page 467, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 457, character 5
• Unihan data for U+57F7

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Chinese

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trad.		執
simp.		执

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhí (zhi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zap¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chip

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhí
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zap¹
    • Yale: jāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzap⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐp̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chip
    • Tâi-lô: tsip
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕip̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕip̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (執, reconstructed)
Character (執), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 緝 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 之入切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕiɪp̚/	/t͡ɕi̯əp̚/	/t͡ɕiəp̚/	/t͡ɕip̚/	/cip̚/	/t͡ɕĭĕp̚/	/t͡ɕjep̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (執, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
執								zhí								‹ tsyip ›								/*[t]ip/								seize
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
執					17290					執					緝					2					執					/*tjib/					甲金文象梏人雙手，幸象梏非聲

Definitions

執

1. to hold in hand
2. to keep
3. to carry out

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Japanese

Kanji

執

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yōon: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: とる (toru), とらえる (toraeru)

Compounds

• 確執 (かくしつ, kakushitsu)
• 我執 (がしゅう, gashū)
• 固執 (こしゅう, koshū)
• 執意 (しつい, shitsui)
• 執権 (しっけん, shikken)
• 執行 (しっこう, shikkō)
• 執政 (しっせい, shissei)
• 執事 (しつじ, shitsuji)
• 執刀 (しっとう, shittō)
• 執務 (しつむ, shitsumu)
• 執拗 (しつよう, shitsuyō)
• 執心 (しゅうしん, shūshin)
• 執着 (しゅうちゃく, shūchaku)
• 執念 (しゅうねん, shūnen)
• 偏執 (へんしつ, henshitsu)
• 妄執 (もうしゅう, mōshū)

Proper noun

執 (hiragana まもる, romaji Mamoru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

執 (jip) (hangeul 집, revised jip, McCune-Reischauer chip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

執 (chấp, chắp, chặp, chập, chợp, chuụp, giập, giộp, giúp, xắp, xấp, xúp, chộp, chụp, xóp, xụp)

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References

• Nom Foundation