戚

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 戊 (“scythe”) + phonetic 尗 – in early sense, a battle-axe, a kind of cutting weapon.

Han character

戚 (radical 62 戈+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹卜一火 (IHYMF), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊尗)

1. relative
2. be related to
3. sad

References

• KangXi: page 412, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11594
• Dae Jaweon: page 755, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1406, character 15
• Unihan data for U+621A

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		戚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qī (qi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chhek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qī
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cik¹
    • Yale: chīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
    • Tâi-lô: tshik
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰɪk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (戚, reconstructed)
Character (戚), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 錫 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 倉歷切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰek̚/	/t͡sʰiek̚/	/t͡sʰek̚/	/t͡sʰek̚/	/t͡sʰɛjk̚/	/t͡sʰiek̚/	/t͡sʰɛk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戚, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戚								qī								‹ tshek ›								/*s.tʰˤiwk/								(in 'toad')
戚								qī								‹ tshek ›								/*s.tʰˤiwk/								relatives
戚								qī								‹ tshek ›								/*s.tʰˤiwk/								kind of battle axe
戚								qī								‹ tshek ›								/*s.tʰˤiwk/								worried; sad; depressed
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
戚					11729					尗					覺					2					戚					/*sʰlɯːwɢ/

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Japanese

Kanji

戚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せき (seki), そく (soku)
• Kun: みうち (miuchi), いたむ (itamu), うれえる (ureeru)

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Korean

Hanja

戚 (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戚 (thích)

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