斫

Translingual

Han character

斫 (Kangxi radical 69, 斤+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口竹一中 (MRHML), four-corner 1262₁, composition ⿰石斤)

1. cut, chop, lop off

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 479, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13548
• Dae Jaweon: page 838, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2024, character 3
• Unihan data for U+65AB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		斫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 斫
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
柘	*tjaɡs
妬	*taːɡs
蠹	*taːɡs
沰	*taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
拓	*tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
橐	*tʰaːɡ
袥	*tʰaːɡ
驝	*tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
斫	*tjaɡ
磭	*ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔	*rtaːɡ
跖	*tjaɡ
石	*djaɡ
碩	*djaɡ
祏	*djaɡ
鉐	*djaɡ
鼫	*djaɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyak

Rime
Character	斫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之若切
Baxter	tsyak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjaɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	斫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyak ›
Old Chinese	/*tak/
English	cut, hack
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	斫
Reading #	1/1
No.	11464
Phonetic component	石
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	灼
Old Chinese	/*tjaɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 斫

1. to cut

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Japanese

Kanji

斫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: きる (kiru)

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Korean

Hanja

斫 (eum 작 (jak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

斫: Hán Nôm readings: chước, trác

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