柞

Translingual

Han character

柞 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木人尸 (DOS), four-corner 4891₁, composition ⿰木乍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 519, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14636
• Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1184, character 8
• Unihan data for U+67DE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		柞

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
作	*ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ
鲊	*ʔsraːʔ
痄	*ʔsraːʔ
厏	*ʔsraːʔ, *zraːʔ
詐	*ʔsraːɡs
咋	*ʔsraːɡs, *zraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ
笮	*ʔsraːɡs, *zaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
榨	*ʔsraːɡs
炸	*ʔr'aːɡs, *zreːb
乍	*zraːɡs
拃	*ʔsraːnʔ
酢	*sʰaːɡs, *zaːɡ
祚	*zaːɡs
胙	*zaːɡs
阼	*zaːɡs
飵	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
秨	*zaːɡs, *zaːɡ
迮	*ʔsaːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
柞	*ʔsaːɡ, *zaːɡ
昨	*zaːɡ
怍	*zaːɡ
砟	*zaːɡ
莋	*zaːɡ
岝	*zaːɡ, *zraːɡ
鈼	*zaːɡ
筰	*zaːɡ
葃	*zaːɡ, *zreːɡ, *zaɡ
舴	*ʔr'aːɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
窄	*ʔsraːɡ
蚱	*ʔsraːɡ
齚	*zraːɡ
泎	*zraːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhà, zuò, zé (zha⁴, zuo⁴, ze²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄚˋ, ㄗㄨㄛˋ, ㄗㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaa⁶ / zaak³ / zok⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhà
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhà
    • Wade–Giles: cha⁴
    • Yale: jà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jah
    • Palladius: чжа (čža)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuò
    • Wade–Giles: tso⁴
    • Yale: dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuoh
    • Palladius: цзо (czo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zé
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zé
    • Wade–Giles: tsê²
    • Yale: dzé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzer
    • Palladius: цзэ (czɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaa⁶ / zaak³ / zok⁶
    • Yale: jah / jaak / johk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaa⁶ / dzaak⁸ / dzok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: za⁶ / zag³ / zog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saː²²/, /t͡saːk̚³/, /t͡sɔːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsak, dzak

Rime
Character	柞	柞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	則落切	在各切
Baxter	tsak	dzak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sak̚/	/d͡zak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zɑk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑk̚/	/d͡zʱɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zuo	zuó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zok3	zok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːɡ/, /*zaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	柞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zé
Middle Chinese	‹ tsræk ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁrak/
English	clear brush
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	柞	柞
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16663	16666
Phonetic component	乍	乍
Rime group	鐸	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	作	昨
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaːɡ/	/*zaːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 柞

1. oak
2. spinous evergreen tree
3. to clear away trees

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Japanese

Kanji

柞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ざく (zaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)
• Kun: ははそ (hahaso)

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Korean

Hanja

柞 • (jak, chaek) (hangeul 작, 책, revised jak, chaek, McCune–Reischauer chak, ch'aek, Yale cak, chayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柞: Hán Nôm readings: tạc, trách

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References

• Nom Foundation