剔

Translingual

Han character

剔 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日竹中弓 (AHLN), four-corner 6220₀, composition ⿰易刂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 140, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2031
• Dae Jaweon: page 320, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 344, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5254

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		剔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 剔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
賜	*sleːɡs
儩	*sleɡs
舓	*ɦljeʔ
易	*leːɡs, *leɡ
敡	*leɡs
鬄	*sljeɡ
睗	*hljeɡ
晹	*hljeɡ
痬	*leɡ
蜴	*leɡ
埸	*leɡ
逷	*l̥ʰeːɡ
剔	*l̥ʰeːɡ
踢	*tʰeːɡ
惕	*l̥ʰeːɡ
錫	*sleːɡ
裼	*sleːɡ
緆	*sleːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰeːɡ) : phonetic 易 (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tī, tì (ti¹, ti⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧ, ㄊㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tik¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiak / thek / thak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tī
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ti
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi¹
    • Yale: tī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ti
    • Palladius: ти (ti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, nonstandard or dialectal)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tì
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tì
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi⁴
    • Yale: tì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tih
    • Palladius: ти (ti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tik¹
    • Yale: tīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: tig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiak
    • Tâi-lô: thiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thek
    • Tâi-lô: thik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: teg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thak
    • Tâi-lô: thak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰak̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰak̚³²/

Note:

• thiak/thek - literary;
• thak - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: thek

Rime
Character	剔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	他歷切
Baxter	thek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/tʰek̚/
Wang Li	/tʰiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ti
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤek/, /*l̥ˤek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰeːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	剔	剔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tī	tì
Middle Chinese	‹ thek ›	‹ thejH ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˁek/	/*l̥ˁek-s/
English	cut (v.)	shave
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	剔
Reading #	1/1
No.	15039
Phonetic component	易
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逖
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰeːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 剔

1. to pick meat from bones
2. to pick (with a pointed instrument); to scrape
3. to pick out; to weed out
4. (Cantonese) tick; checkmark
5. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 剃 (tì, “to shave”).

References

• “剔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

剔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てき (teki); てい (tei)
• Kun: えぐる (eguru); そる (soru)

Noun

剔(てき) • (teki) 

1. cutting

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 剔出(てきしゅつ) (tekishutsu)
• 剔除(てきじょ) (tekijo)
• 剔抉(てっけつ) (tekketsu)

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Korean

Hanja

剔 (eum 척 (cheok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

剔: Hán Nôm readings: dịch, tích

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