析

Translingual

Han character

析 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木竹一中 (DHML), four-corner 4292₁, composition ⿰木斤)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 515, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14538
• Dae Jaweon: page 903, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1171, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6790

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		析

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 析
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 (析) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
菥	*se, *seːɡ
蜤	*se
析	*seːɡ
皙	*seːɡ
蜥	*seːɡ
淅	*seːɡ
惁	*seːɡ
晰	*seːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹ / cik¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): xid⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹ / cik¹
    • Yale: sīk / chīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷ / tsik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹ / qig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/, /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵/

Note: cik1 - variant.

• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /sit̚¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sek̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: sek

Rime
Character	析
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先擊切
Baxter	sek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/sek̚/
Wang Li	/siek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/siek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*seːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	析
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ sek ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁek/
English	split (v.)
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	析
Reading #	1/1
No.	13316
Phonetic component	析
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	錫
Old Chinese	/*seːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 析

1. to split wood
2. to break apart
3. to divide
4. to analyse

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Japanese

Kanji

析

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. divide, split

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

析 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 析 (chiết, tích)

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