惜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 昔 – a feeling (of the heart).

Note that 昔 has meaning of “past, ending”, hence connotations of “feelings for the past, feeling about an ending – regret, rue”.

Han character

惜 (radical 61 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心廿日 (PTA), four-corner 9406₁, composition ⿰忄昔)

1. pity, regret, rue, begrudge

References

• KangXi: page 391, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10814
• Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2313, character 9
• Unihan data for U+60DC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

惜 (Jyutping sik1, Yale sik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

惜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せき (seki), しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: おしい (oshii), おしむ (oshimu)

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Korean

Hanja

惜 (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune-Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

惜 (Pinyin xī (xi1), Wade-Giles hsi²)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

惜 (TLPA sik (sik⁴), sioh (sioh⁴))

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References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

惜 (tiếc, tích)

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