索

Translingual

Han character

索 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十月女戈火 (JBVIF), four-corner 4090₃, composition ⿳十冖糸)

1. large rope, cable
2. rules, laws
3. to demand, to exact
4. to search, inquire
5. isolated

References

• KangXi: page 918, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27306
• Dae Jaweon: page 1349, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3369, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7D22

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		索

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suǒ (suo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saak³, sok³, suk³
• Min Nan (POJ): soh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: suǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄛˇ
    • Wade-Giles: suo³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suoo
    • IPA ^(key): /su̯ɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: saak³, sok³, suk³
    • Yale: saak, sok, suk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saak⁸, sok⁸, suk⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /sɑːk̚³/, /sɔːk̚³/, /sʊk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soh
    • Tâi-lô: soh
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔʔ³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (索, reconstructed)
Character (索), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 鐸 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 蘇各切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɑk̚/	/sɑk̚/	/sɑk̚/	/sɑk̚/	/sak̚/	/sɑk̚/	/sɑk̚/
Character (索), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 生 (21) Final: 陌 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 山戟切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʃɣiæk̚/	/ʂiɐk̚/	/ʃiɐk̚/	/ʃɯiak̚/	/ʂiajk̚/	/ʃĭɐk̚/	/ʃiak̚/
Character (索), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 生 (21) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 山責切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʃɣɛk̚/	/ʂæk̚/	/ʃɛk̚/	/ʃɯæk̚/	/ʂəɨjk̚/	/ʃæk̚/	/ʃɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (索, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
索								suǒ								‹ sak ›								/*[s]ˤak/								twist a rope
索								suǒ								‹ sak ›								/*[s]ˤak/								search (v.)
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
索					12191					索					鐸					0					索					/*slaːɡ/
索					12193					索					鐸					0					𡩡					/*sraːɡ/
索					12195					索					錫					0					栜					/*sreːɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

索

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さく (saku)
• Kun: なわ (nawa), もとめる (motomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

索 (saek, sak) (hangeul 색, 삭, revised saek, sak, McCune-Reischauer saek, sak, Yale sayk, sak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

索 (sách, tác, xách)

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