嗇

See also: 啬

Translingual

Han character

嗇 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土人田口 (GOWR), four-corner 4060₁, composition ⿱⿻土从回)

Derived characters

• 牆(墙), 薔(蔷), 濇(𬈧), 㱇, 轖

Descendants

• 啬 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 202, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4053
• Dae Jaweon: page 424, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 665, character 11
• Unihan data for U+55C7

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Chinese

trad.		嗇
simp.		啬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嗇
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
濇	*srɯb, *srɯɡ
嗇	*srɯɡ
穡	*srɯɡ
薔	*zaŋ, *srɯɡ
轖	*srɯɡ
繬	*srɯɡ
嬙	*zaŋ, *srɯɡ
懎	*srɯɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 來 + 㐭.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sè (se⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sè
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sè
    • Wade–Giles: sê⁴
    • Yale: sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: seh
    • Palladius: сэ (sɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siah
    • Tâi-lô: siah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siaʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: srik

Rime
Character	嗇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	所力切
Baxter	srik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂik̚/
Li Rong	/ʃiək̚/
Wang Li	/ʃĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.rək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*srɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嗇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sè
Middle Chinese	‹ srik ›
Old Chinese	/*s.rək/
English	reap
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	嗇
Reading #	1/1
No.	10992
Phonetic component	嗇
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	色
Old Chinese	/*srɯɡ/
Notes	象禾來之積，來亦聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嗇

1. ^† Original form of 穡／穑 (sè).
2. miserly; thrifty; stingy
3. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 塞.

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Japanese

Kanji

嗇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. lowly
2. the country
3. the countryside
4. be countrified

Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)
• Kun: おしむ (oshimu), やぶさか (yabusaka)

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Korean

Hanja

嗇 • (saek) (hangeul 색, revised saek, McCune–Reischauer saek)

1. miserly, thrifty, stingy
2. stopped up, constipated

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 嗇 (sắc)

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References

• Nom Foundation