拭

拭 U+62ED, 拭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62ED ← 括 [U+62EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 拮 → [U+62EE]

Translingual

Han character

拭 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手戈心一 (QIPM), four-corner 5304₀, composition ⿰扌式)

1. wipe away stains with cloth

References

• KangXi: page 427, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11989
• Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1865, character 3
• Unihan data for U+62ED

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (弋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
戴	*ʔl'ɯːɡs
襶	*tɯːɡs
貸	*l̥ʰɯːɡs
代	*l'ɯːɡs
袋	*l'ɯːɡs
岱	*l'ɯːɡs
黛	*l'ɯːɡs
玳	*l'ɯːɡs
帒	*l'ɯːɡs
甙	*l'ɯːɡs
酨	*l'ɯːs, *zlɯːs
試	*hljɯɡs
弒	*hljɯɡs
忒	*l̥ʰɯːɡ
貣	*l̥ʰɯːɡ, *l'ɯːɡ
鴏	*l'ɯːɡ
栻	*l̥ʰɯɡ, *hljɯɡ
侙	*l̥ʰɯɡ
恜	*l̥ʰɯɡ
式	*hljɯɡ
軾	*hljɯɡ
拭	*hljɯɡ
鉽	*hljɯɡ
烒	*hljɯɡ
弋	*lɯɡ
芅	*lɯɡ
黓	*lɯɡ
隿	*lɯɡ
杙	*lɯɡ
釴	*lɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhu̍t
• Min Nan (POJ): siak / sek / chhit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: cud
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cud⁶
    • IPA: /t͡sʰut̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhit
    • Tâi-lô: tshit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chid
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰit̚⁵/

Note:

• siak/sek - literary;
• chhit - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	拭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	賞職切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕik̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiək̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*l̥ək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ syik ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ək/
English	to wipe
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	拭
Reading #	1/1
No.	14982
Phonetic component	弋
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	識
Old Chinese	/*hljɯɡ/

Definitions

拭

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Compounds

• 傾耳拭目／倾耳拭目
• 抆拭
• 抹拭
• 拂拭
• 拭去 (shìqù)
• 拭淚／拭泪

• 拭目
• 拭目以俟
• 拭目以待 (shìmùyǐdài)
• 拭目以觀／拭目以观
• 拭目傾耳／拭目倾耳
• 拭目而待

• 拭目而觀／拭目而观
• 擦拭 (cāshì)
• 洗拭
• 膏脣拭舌／膏唇拭舌
• 舔拭

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Japanese

Kanji

拭

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: しき (shiki)
• Kan’on: しょく (shoku, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぬぐう (nuguu, 拭う, Jōyō); ふく (fuku, 拭く, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

拭 • (sik) (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune-Reischauer sik, Yale sik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拭 (rị)

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