隻

See also 只

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 隹 (“bird”) + 又 (“hand”)

To hold one bird is 隻; to hold two birds is 雙.

Han character

隻 (radical 172 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE), X人土水 (XOGE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿱隹又)

1. single, one of a pair, lone

References

• KangXi: page 1364, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96BB

See also

• 蒦

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Cantonese

Hanzi

隻 (simplified 只, jyutping zek3, Yale jek3)

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Japanese

Kanji

隻 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Counter

隻 (hiragana せき, romaji seki)

1. boats or ships
2. one of two, one of a pair
3. birds, fish, or arrows

Readings

• On: せき (seki)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu)

Compounds

• 一隻 - one ship

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

隻 (simplified 只, pinyin zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles chih¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隻 (chích, chiếc, chếch, chệch, xếch, xệch, chỉ)