汐

Translingual

Han character

汐 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水弓戈 (ENI), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵夕)

1. night tides
2. evening ebb tide

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 605, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17122
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1554, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C50

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Chinese

trad.		汐
simp. #		汐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
夕	*ljaːɡ
汐	*ljaːɡ
穸	*ljaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaːɡ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ).

Etymology

From 夕 (OC *ljaːɡ, “evening”). Compare 潮 (OC *r'ew, “morning tide; tide”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 汐

1. evening tide; night tides; ebb

   潮汐  ―  cháoxī  ―  morning and evening tides; tide, wave

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Japanese

Kanji

汐

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. eventide
2. tide
3. salt water
4. opportunity

Readings

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)^{←じやく (zyaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: せき (seki)
• Kun: うしお (ushio, 汐)^{←うしほ (usifo, 汐, historical)}; しお (shio, 汐)^{←しおほ (siofo, 汐, historical)}
• Nanori: いそ (iso); せい (sei)

Usage notes

• Both 汐 and 潮 have the kun-readings of shio and ushio. Archaically, 夕汐(ゆうしお) (yūshio) was used to mean tides during the night, and 朝潮(あさしお) (asashio) was used for tides in the morning. For tides at any time of day, the compound chōseki may be used, below.

Compounds

• 潮(ちょう)汐(せき) (chōseki, “tide”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. night tides
2. evening ebb tide

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 汐 (tách, tịch)

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville