臆

Translingual

Han character

臆 (radical 130 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月卜廿心 (BYTP), four-corner 7023₆)

References

• KangXi: page 996, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29951
• Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2118, character 3
• Unihan data for U+81C6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		臆

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯɡ): semantic 肉 ‎(“body”) + phonetic 意 ‎(OC *qɯɡs)

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tai *ʔɤkᴰ ‎(“chest”), whence Thai อก ‎(òk). Cognate with 意 (“mind”) and 憶 (“to remember”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ioh

• Wu (Wiktionary): i (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik¹
    • Yale: yīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ioh
    • Tâi-lô: ioh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ioiq
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɤʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɤʔ³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: i (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (臆, reconstructed)
Character (臆), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 職 (134) Tone: Checked (Ø)							Openness: Open Division: III Fanqie: 於力切							Expected Mandarin reflex: yi
Zhengzhang Shangfang			Pan Wuyun			Shao Rongfen			Edwin Pulleyblank			Li Rong			Wang Li			Bernard Karlgren
/ʔɨk̚/			/ʔɨk̚/			/ʔiek̚/			/ʔik̚/			/ʔiək̚/			/ĭək̚/			/ʔi̯ək̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (臆, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
臆								yì								‹ ʔik ›								/*ʔ(r)ək/								bosom
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
臆					15158					意					職					0					憶					/*qɯɡ/

Definitions

臆

1. chest, breast, bosom
2. thought

Compounds

• 傾吐胸臆／倾吐胸臆
• 直抒胸臆
• 胸臆
• 臆度

• 臆想
• 臆想狂
• 臆想症
• 臆斷／臆断

• 臆測／臆测
• 臆見／臆见
• 臆造

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Japanese

Kanji

臆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mind; thought
2. repress one's mind
3. expect many things

Readings

• Goon: おく (oku)
• Kan’on: よく (yoku)
• Kun: おく・する (臆する, okusuru), (rare) むね (mune), (rare) おもう (omou), (rare) おぼえる (oboeru)
• Nanori: ぞう (zō)

Compounds

臆出 臆度

臆断 臆病

臆面 臆見

臆説 臆測

References

JIS: 3231 Kuten: 1817 Shift JIS: 89AF EUC-JP: B2B1 Frequency: 1324 Nelson: 1780

New Nelson: 2001 Halpern: 765 Halpern Learners: 530 Heisig: 632 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 4k13.5

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

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Korean

Hanja

臆 • ‎(eok) (hangeul 억, revised eok, McCune-Reischauer ŏk, Yale ek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

臆 (ức)

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