職

See also: 职

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 耳 + phonetic 戠

Han character

職 (radical 128 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜戈日 (SJYIA), four-corner 1315₀, composition ⿰耳戠)

1. duty, profession
2. office, post

References

• KangXi: page 970, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29183
• Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2797, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8077

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Cantonese

Hanzi

職 (simplified 职, Jyutping zik1, Yale jik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

職

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょく (shoku), とく (toku), しき (shiki)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa), つとめ (tsutome), つかさどる (tsukasadoru)

Noun

職 (hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)

1. employment

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Korean

Hanja

職 (jik) (hangeul 직, revised jik, McCune-Reischauer chik, Yale cik)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

職 (simplified 职, Pinyin tè (te4), zhí (zhi2), zhì (zhi4), Wade-Giles t'e⁴, chih², chih⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

職 (jiək)

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Vietnamese

Han character

職 (chức), chắc, giấc, xắc, chếch, xức

• variant: 聀 "chức"

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Readings

• Nôm: chắc, chức, giấc, thức

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999