脊

脊 U+810A, 脊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-810A ← 脉 [U+8109] CJK Unified Ideographs 脋 → [U+810B]

Translingual

Han character

脊 (radical 130 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火金月 (FCB), four-corner 1122₇)

Derived characters

• 鶺 (鹡)

References

• KangXi: page 982, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29472
• Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2070, character 10
• Unihan data for U+810A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		脊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 脊
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (脊) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
脊	*ʔseɡ
蹐	*ʔseɡ
鶺	*ʔseɡ
塉	*zeɡ
瘠	*zeɡ
膌	*zeɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐ, jí (ji³, ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˇ, ㄐㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zek³, zik³
• Min Nan (POJ): chiak / chek / chit / chiah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese and Beijing dialect)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
      
  • (Beijing dialect)⁺
    • Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zek³, zik³
    • Yale: jek, jik
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzek⁸, dzik⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zég³, jig³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛːk̚³/, /t͡sɪk̚³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit
    • Tâi-lô: tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cid
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕit̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ⁵/

Note:

• chiak/chek - literary;
• chit/chiah - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇk̚/▼

Rime
Character	脊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	資昔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siajk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ji

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔseɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	脊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsjek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ek/
English	spine, backbone
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	脊
Reading #	1/1
No.	5782
Phonetic component	脊
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	積
Old Chinese	/*ʔseɡ/

Definitions

脊

1. (anatomy) spine; backbone
2. ridge
3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 世界屋脊 (shìjiè wūjǐ)
• 中洋脊
• 光脊梁
• 單斜脊／单斜脊
• 地脊
• 屋脊 (wūjǐ)
• 山脊 (shānjǐ)
• 戳脊梁骨
• 房脊
• 打脊
• 打脊匹夫
• 打脊魍魎／打脊魍魉
• 書脊／书脊 (shūjǐ)

• 沒脊梁／没脊梁
• 沒脊骨／没脊骨
• 磨脊梁
• 背脊 (bèijǐ)
• 胸脊
• 脊令在原
• 脊杖
• 脊柱 (jǐzhù)
• 脊梁
• 脊梁骨
• 脊椎 (jǐzhuī)
• 脊椎動物／脊椎动物 (jǐzhuī dòngwù)
• 脊椎骨 (jǐzhuīgǔ)

• 脊檁／脊檩
• 脊百合
• 脊神經／脊神经
• 脊索
• 脊索動物／脊索动物
• 脊背 (jǐbèi)
• 脊髓 (jǐsuǐ)
• 裡脊肉／里脊肉
• 豎起脊梁／竖起脊梁
• 躥房越脊／蹿房越脊
• 露脊鯨／露脊鲸
• 飛簷走脊／飞檐走脊

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

脊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: せ (se, 脊); せい (sei, 脊)

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Korean

Hanja

脊 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

脊 (tích)

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