脊

Translingual

Han character

脊 (radical 130 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火金月 (FCB), four-corner 1122₇)

1. spine, backbone
2. ridge

Derived characters

• 鶺 (鹡)

References

• KangXi: page 982, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29472
• Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2070, character 10
• Unihan data for U+810A

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		脊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí, jǐ (ji², ji³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ, ㄐㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zek³, zik³
• Min Nan (POJ): chiah / chit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zek³, zik³
    • Yale: jek, jik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzek⁸, dzik⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛːk̚³/, /t͡sɪk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah / chit
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah / tsit
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕit̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (脊, reconstructed)
Character (脊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 精 (13) Final: 昔 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 資昔切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡siᴇk̚/	/t͡si̯ɛk̚/	/t͡siɛk̚/	/t͡siɛk̚/	/t͡siajk̚/	/t͡sĭɛk̚/	/t͡siæk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (脊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
脊								jǐ								‹ tsjek ›								/*[ts]ek/								spine, backbone
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
脊					5782					脊					錫					0					積					/*ʔseɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

脊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せき (seki)
• Kun: せ (se), せい (sei)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

脊 (tích)

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