乭

Translingual

Han character

乭 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+5, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一口弓 (MRN), four-corner 1071₇, composition ⿱石乙)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 84, character 14
• Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 53, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E6D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		乭
alternative forms		石

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Korean 돌 (乭, dol). The character is usually read as 石 (shí).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shí (shi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): se̍k / si̍t

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziêh⁸ / zioh⁸ / sig⁸ / sêg⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shí
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíh
    • Wade–Giles: shih²
    • Yale: shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sek⁶
    • Yale: sehk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
    • Tâi-lô: si̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sek
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t
    • Tâi-lô: si̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sit
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziêh⁸ / zioh⁸ / sig⁸ / sêg⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsie̍h / tsio̍h / si̍k / se̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieʔ⁴/, /t͡sioʔ⁴/, /sik̚⁴/, /sek̚⁴/

Note:

• ziêh8/zioh8 - vernacular;
• sig8/sêg8 - literary.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 乭

1. Used in Korean names.

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Korean

Glyph origin

A Korean-coined Han character (국자 (國字, gukja)). From 石 (“stone, semantic reading 돌 (dol)”) + 乙 (을 (eul), “used as marker to represent the last consonant ㄹ (l)”).

Hanja

乭 (eumhun 음역자 돌 (eumyeokja dol))

1. Hanja form^? of 돌 (“hanja used for transliteration, mainly used in personal names”).

   이세돌 (李世乭) ― I Sedol ― Lee Sedol, a professional Go player in South Korea

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]