爵

爵 U+FA9E, 爵 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA9E ← 瞧 [U+FA9D] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 犯 → [U+FA9F]

爵 U+2F921, 爵 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F921 ← 爨 [U+2F920] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 牐 → [U+2F922]

Translingual

Han character

爵 (Kangxi radical 87, 爪+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月田中戈 (BWLI), four-corner 2074₆, composition ⿳爫罒𡬠)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 689, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19710
• Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2037, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7235

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		爵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
釂	*ʔsewɢs
皭	*ʔsewɢs, *zewɢ
爝	*ʔsewɢs, *ʔsewɢ, *zewɢ
爵	*ʔsewɢ
嚼	*zewɢ
穱	*ʔsreːwɢ
灂	*zreːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiok / chiak / chek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siak̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjak

Rime
Character	爵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即略切
Baxter	tsjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡siak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsewɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ tsjak ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ewk/
English	nobility, rank
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	爵
Reading #	1/1
No.	7256
Phonetic component	爵
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	爵
Old Chinese	/*ʔsewɢ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 爵

1. feudal title or rank

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Japanese

Kanji

爵

(Jōyō kanji)

1. jue (vessel)
2. peerage

Readings

• Go-on: せく (seku)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: さかずき (sakazuki, 爵)^{←さかづき (sakaduki, 爵, historical)}; すずめ (suzume, 爵)

Derived terms

• 公爵(こうしゃく) (kōshaku): duke
• 侯爵(こうしゃく) (kōshaku): marquess
• 伯爵(はくしゃく) (hakushaku): earl
• 子(し)爵(しゃく) (shishaku): viscount
• 男爵(だんしゃく) (danshaku): baron

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Korean

Hanja

爵 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 爵 (tước)

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