職

See also: 职

Translingual

Han character

職 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜戈日 (SJYIA), four-corner 1315₀, composition ⿰耳戠)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 970, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29183
• Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8077

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Chinese

trad.		職
simp.		职

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 職
Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
識	*tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
幟	*tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
織	*tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
熾	*tʰjɯɡs
樴	*dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
職	*tjɯɡ
軄	*tjɯɡ
戠	*tjɯɡ
膱	*tjɯɡ
蟙	*tjɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjɯɡ) : semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 戠 (OC *tjɯɡ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 職

1. duty; profession
2. office; post

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Japanese

Kanji

職

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しき (shiki)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku, Jōyō)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa, 職); つかさどる (tsukasadoru, 職る); つとめ (tsutome, 職め)

Alternative forms

• (ryakuji) 耺 [U+803A]
• (ryakuji) 𫟉 [U+2B7C9]

Etymology

Kanji in this term
職
しょく Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 職 (MC tsyik).

Noun

職(しょく) • (shoku) 

1. employment

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Korean

Hanja

職 • (jik) (hangeul 직, revised jik, McCune–Reischauer chik, Yale cik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 職 (chức, chắc, giấc, xắc, chếch, xức)

• variant: 聀 "chức"

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Readings

• Nôm: chắc, chức, giấc, thức

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, 1999