即

See also: 卽 and 既

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 卽

Han character

即 (radical 26 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 日戈尸中 (AISL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰艮卩)

1. promptly, quickly, immediately

Derived characters

• 節

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2855
• Dae Jaweon: page 364, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 314, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5373

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		即

Alternative forms

• 卽, 皍

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí (ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chiah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik¹
    • Yale: jīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaq
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	即
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子力切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sik̚/
Li Rong	/t͡siək̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ji

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	即	即
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jí	jí
Middle Chinese	‹ tsik ›	‹ tsik ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ik/	/*[ts]ik/
English	go to	thereupon
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	即
Reading #	1/1
No.	5725
Phonetic component	即
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	即
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯɡ/
Notes	甲文象即食卪非聲

Definitions

即

1. namely; i.e.; that is
2. prompt
3. at once
4. at present
5. even if
6. prompted (by the occasion)
7. to approach
8. to come into contact
9. to assume office
10. to draw near

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Japanese

Kanji

即

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: そく (soku)
• Kan’on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: つく (tsuku), すなわち (sunawachi), もし (moshi)

Compounds

Compounds

即時 (そくじ) ‎(sokuji) 即発 (そくはつ) ‎(sokuhatsu): immediate explosion 即興 (そっきょう) ‎(sokkyō) 即刻 (そっこく) ‎(sokkoku) 当意即妙 (とういそくみょう) ‎(tōisokumyō)

Kanji in this term
即
そく Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) そ​く [sóꜜkù] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [so̞kɯᵝ]

Adverb

即 ‎(hiragana そく, romaji soku)

1. immediately

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Korean

Hanja

即 • ‎(jeuk) (hangeul 즉, revised jeuk, McCune-Reischauer chŭk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

即 (tức)

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