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)

1. spine, backbone
2. ridge

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
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • 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): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit
    • Tâi-lô: tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cid
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/

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

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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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