冊

See also: 册 and 𠕁

Translingual

Han character

冊 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT) or 難月廿 (XBT), four-corner 7744₀, composition ⿻冂卄 or ⿻𦉫一)

Derived characters

• 𭇒, 姍, 柵, 𣧱, 𦙱, 𪑃, 刪, 𮟰, 𠂨, 𣫳, 𣌧
• 珊, 粣, 跚, 銏, 笧 (For all regions except mainland China and Vietnamese Nom characters which contain 册 instead. Exception: Korean 跚 contains 册) - See Han unification

Related characters

• 册 (Variant form used in simplified Chinese and Vietnamese Nom)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 129, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1515
• Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 99, character 5
• Unihan data for U+518A

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Chinese

trad.		冊
simp.		册
alternative forms		𠕁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script
Oracle bone script j04541 j04542 j04543 j04544 j04545 j04546 j04547 j04548 j04549 j04550 Bronze inscriptions b02679 b02680 b02681 b02682 b02683 b02684 b02685 b02686 b02687 b02688 b02689 b02690 b02691 b02692 b02693 b02694 b02695 b02696 b02697 b02698 b02699 b02700 b02701 b02702 b02703 b02704 b02705 b02706 b02707 b02708 b02709 b02710 b02711 b02712 b02713 b02714 b02715 b02716 b02717 b02718 b02719 b02720 b02721 b02722 b02723 b02724 b02725 b02726 b02727 b02728 b02729 b02730 b02731 b02732 b02733 b02734 Transcribed ancient scripts L38181 L38182 L38183 L27838 L27839 L27841 L27842 L27843 L27844 L27845 L27846 L27847 L27848 L27849 L27850 L27851
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (冊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
栅	*sʰraːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sraːns
冊	*sʰreːɡ
笧	*sʰreːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – bamboo slips strung together.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cè (ce⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caak³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhak
• Eastern Min (BUC): cháh
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chheh / chheeh / chhek / chhiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cêh⁴

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷tshaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cè
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cè
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻê⁴
    • Yale: tsè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tseh
    • Palladius: цэ (cɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: caak³
    • Yale: chaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: cag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhak
    • Hakka Romanization System: cag`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰak̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cháh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheh
    • Tâi-lô: tsheh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zheq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰeʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰeʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheeh
    • Tâi-lô: tsheeh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɛʔ³²/
    • IPA (Penang): /t͡sʰɛʔ³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
    • Tâi-lô: tshik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zheg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiak
    • Tâi-lô: tshiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiak̚⁵/

Note:

• chheh/chheeh - vernacular;
• chhek/chhiak - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: cêh⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsheh
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰeʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷tshaq
    • MiniDict: tshah^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tshaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰaʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrheak

Rime
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	楚革切
Baxter	tsrheak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰɛk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	che
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cak1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰreːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ](ˁ)rek/
English	tablet, records
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	冊
Reading #	1/1
No.	1167
Phonetic component	册
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	策
Old Chinese	/*sʰreːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 冊

1. (literary or Southern Min) book
2. volume
3. imperial edict
4. to grant in an imperial edict
5. Classifier for books.

See also

• 書／书 (shū)

Further reading

• “Entry #1322”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

冊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふみ (fumi, 冊)

Counter

冊(さつ) or 冊(counter) • (satsu or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|さつ]]

1. books

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Korean

Hanja

冊 • (chaek) (hangeul 책, revised chaek, McCune–Reischauer ch'aek)

1. book

Compounds

• 冊房 (책방, chaekbang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冊: Hán Nôm readings: sách

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