蓄

Translingual

Han character

蓄 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿卜女田 (TYVW), four-corner 4460₃, composition ⿱艹畜)

Derived characters

• 𭳀, 𦿤

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1051, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31642
• Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3269, character 3
• Unihan data for U+84C4

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Chinese

trad.		蓄
simp. #		蓄
alternative forms		⿰忄蓄 稸 ⿰禾蓄 ⿱䒑畜 ⿳⻀玆田 ⿰忄蓄 稸 ⿰禾蓄 ⿱䒑畜 ⿳⻀玆田 ⿱𬝘田 𦿤 𧁖 𧁃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
畜	*l̥ʰuɡs, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
蓄	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
稸	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
滀	*l̥ʰuɡ
傗	*l̥ʰuɡ
鄐	*l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ
慉	*hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ) : semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 畜 (OC *l̥ʰuɡs, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ) – to cultivate plants, to store grain, to save.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蓄

1. to store up; to stockpile; to accumulate; to hoard
2. to raise; to rear (domestic animals)
3. to harbour; to keep in mind; to cherish
4. to grow (e.g. a beard)
5. to await; to wait for
6. (Min) to collect; to get or buy for use; to purchase
7. storage; savings
8. preserved, dried cabbage or mustard greens

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03536
• “蓄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

蓄

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to store; to accumulate

Readings

• Go-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kan-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō); きく (kiku)
• Kun: たくわえる (takuwaeru, 蓄える, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 蓄財(ちくざい) (chikuzai): amassing of wealth
• 蓄積(ちくせき) (chikuseki): accumulation

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Korean

Hanja

蓄 • (chuk) (hangeul 축, revised chuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 蓄 (súc)

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References

• Nom Foundation