棌

Translingual

Han character

棌 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木月木 (DBD), four-corner 5299₄, composition ⿰木采)

Usage notes

棌 椽不斲 （cǎi chuán bù zhuó）is an old idiom, which means using 棌木-caimu(oak) for making a rafter without carving figure and other decoration. And this idiom is for eulogizing that the great emperors 尧-yao and舜-shun are frugality. Because at the period of Yaoshun, they lived in the house that used undecorated oak wood for rafters.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 532, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14923
• Dae Jaweon: page 920, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1234, character 9
• Unihan data for U+68CC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		棌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
采	*sʰɯːʔ
睬	*sʰɯːʔ
彩	*sʰɯːʔ
採	*sʰɯːʔ
綵	*sʰɯːʔ
寀	*sʰɯːʔ
菜	*sʰɯːs
埰	*sʰɯːs
棌	*sʰɯːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cài (cai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cài
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cài
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻai⁴
    • Yale: tsài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsay
    • Palladius: цай (caj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: coi³
    • Yale: choi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: coi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshojH

Rime
Character	棌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	倉代切
Baxter	tshojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰəiH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰəjH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰᴀiH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɒiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coi3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰɯːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	棌
Reading #	1/1
No.	1078
Phonetic component	采
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	菜
Old Chinese	/*sʰɯːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 棌

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References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 129

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Japanese

Kanji

棌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さい (sai)
• Kun: くぬぎ (kunugi); あらき (araki); まるき (maruki)

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Korean

Hanja

棌 (eum 채 (chae))

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