卻

See also: 却

Translingual

Han character

卻 (radical 26 卩+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 金口尸中 (CRSL), four-corner 8762₀, composition ⿰谷卩)

1. still, but
2. to decline
3. to retreat

Derived characters

• 腳

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2867
• Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 317, character 2
• Unihan data for U+537B

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Chinese

trad.		卻
simp.		却

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卻
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 谷 + 卩 – person 卩 leaving 八 the house 口 – retreat.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): què (que⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): koek³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khiok
• Min Nan (POJ): khiok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: què
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üeh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɥ̯œ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: koek³
    • Yale: keuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koek⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰœːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiok
    • Hakka Romanization System: kiog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kiog⁵
    • IPA: /kʰi̯ok̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiok
    • Tâi-lô: khiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qiog
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɔk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨɐk̚/, /kʰɨɐk̚/▼

Rime
Character	卻	卻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居勺切	去約切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨɐk̚/	/kʰɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kiɐk̚/	/kʰiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɑk̚/	/kʰiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨak̚/	/kʰɨak̚/
Li Rong	/kiak̚/	/kʰiak̚/
Wang Li	/kĭak̚/	/kʰĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ak̚/	/kʰi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue	que

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʰak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaɡ/, /*kʰaɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	què
Middle Chinese	‹ khjak ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰak/
English	decline, refuse
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	卻	卻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10739	10740
Phonetic component	郤	郤
Rime group	鐸	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	腳
Old Chinese	/*kaɡ/	/*kʰaɡ/

Definitions

卻

1. but

Usage notes

Can not start a sentence.

References

• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) “Entry #4718”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

卻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 却

Readings

• On: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kun: しりぞく (shirizoku), しりぞける (shirizokeru), かえって (kaette)

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Korean

Hanja

卻 • ‎(gak) (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卻 (khước)

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