澤

See also: 泽 and 沢

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 睪

Han character

澤 (radical 85 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水田中十 (EWLJ), four-corner 3614₁, composition ⿰氵睪)

1. marsh, swamp
2. grace, brilliance
3. damp, moist
4. fertile

References

• KangXi: page 652, character 44
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18383
• Dae Jaweon: page 1062, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1757, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6FA4

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Chinese

		-
trad.		澤
simp.		泽

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zé, shì, yì, duó (ze², shi⁴, yi⁴, duo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄜˊ, ㄕˋ, ㄧˋ, ㄉㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zé
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tsê²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzer
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: duó
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwo
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaak⁶
    • Yale: jaahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑːk̚²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (澤, reconstructed)
Character (澤), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 澄 (11) Final: 陌 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 瑒伯切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɖɣæk̚/	/ȡʱɐk̚/	/ȡɐk̚/	/ɖɯak̚/	/ɖaɨjk̚/	/ȡɐk̚/	/ȡak̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (澤, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
澤								zé								‹ dræk ›								/*lˤrak/								marsh; moisture
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
澤					15129					睪					鐸					0										/*rlaːɡ/

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Japanese

shinjitai	沢
simplified	泽
traditional	澤

Kanji

澤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 沢)

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Readings

• On: たく (taku)
• Kun: さわ (sawa)

Meaning

• stream

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Korean

Hanja

澤 (taek, seok) (hangeul 택, 석, revised taek, seok, McCune-Reischauer t'aek, sŏk, Yale thayk, sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

澤 (trạch, rạch, chích)

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