朔

Translingual

Han character

朔 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿山月 (TUB), four-corner 8742₀, composition ⿰屰月)

1. first day of lunar month
2. the north

Derived characters

• 搠, 嗍, 溯, 鎙 (𫔈), 蒴, 塑, 槊, 愬, 遡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 505, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14359
• Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2072, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6714

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Chinese

trad.		朔
simp. #		朔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuò (shuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sok³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
    • Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
    • Yale: shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
    • Palladius: шо (šo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sok³
    • Yale: sok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: sog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok
    • Tâi-lô: sok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: sraewk

Rime
Character	朔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所角切
Baxter	sraewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/ʃɔk̚/
Wang Li	/ʃɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ŋrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋraːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	朔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ sræwk ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ŋrak/
English	1st day of month
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	朔
Reading #	1/1
No.	9468
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	朔
Old Chinese	/*sŋraːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 朔

1. new moon

   朔月  ―  shuòyuè  ―  new moon

2. the first day of the lunar month

   朔日  ―  shuòrì  ―  the first day of the lunar month

   朔望  ―  shuòwàng  ―  the first and 15th day of every lunar month

3. (literary) north

   朔方  ―  shuòfāng  ―  north

4. ^† early morning
5. ^† beginning

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Japanese

Kanji

朔

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: さく (saku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: ついたち (tsuitachi, 朔)

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Korean

Hanja

朔 • (sak) (hangeul 삭, revised sak, McCune–Reischauer sak, Yale sak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 朔 (sóc, xóc, xộc)

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