逐

See also: 遂

Translingual

Han character

逐 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜一尸人 (YMSO), four-corner 3130₃, composition ⿺辶豕)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1257, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38877
• Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3839, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9010

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Chinese

trad.		逐
simp. #		逐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 逐
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
篴	*l'ɯːwɢ, *l'ɯwɢ
蓫	*l̥ʰɯwɢ, *l'ɯwɢ, *hlɯwɢ
逐	*l'ɯwɢ
鱁	*l'ɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯwɢ) : semantic 辵 + phonetic 豕 (OC *hliʔ).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhú (zhu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhu̍k / tak / kiuk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tio̍k / ta̍k / chip / lip / jip / jek / jiok / giok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dog⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhú
    • Wade–Giles: chu²
    • Yale: jú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zuk⁶
    • Yale: juhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu̍k / tak / kiuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: cug / dag` / giug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cug⁶ / dag⁵ / giug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰuk̚⁵/, /tak̚²/, /ki̯uk̚²/

Note:

• tak - “every”;
• kiuk - “to chase”.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tiɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ta̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ta̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dak
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tak̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chip
    • Tâi-lô: tsip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cib
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kinmen): /t͡sip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sip̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Lukang, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lip
    • Tâi-lô: lip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lib
    • IPA (Lukang): /lip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lip̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Sanxia)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jip
    • Tâi-lô: jip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jib
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jek
    • Tâi-lô: jik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jeg
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ziɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Yilan): /d͡ziɪk̚²/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Tainan, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jiok
    • Tâi-lô: jiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiog
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ziɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Tainan): /d͡ziɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: giok
    • Tâi-lô: giok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giog

Note:

• tio̍k - literary;
• ta̍k - colloquial (“every”);
• chip/lip/jip/jek/jiok/giok - colloquial (“to chase”), also written as 緝 in Xiamen and Quanzhou, as 捉 in Zhangzhou.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dog⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: to̍k
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tok̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: drjuwk

Rime
Character	逐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直六切
Baxter	drjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖuwk̚/
Li Rong	/ȡiuk̚/
Wang Li	/ȡĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]riwk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	逐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhú
Middle Chinese	‹ drjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]riwk/
English	pursue
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	逐
Reading #	1/1
No.	17596
Phonetic component	逐
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	逐
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯwɢ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 逐

1. to chase; to pursue
2. gradually; one by one
3. (Hakka, Southern Min) every

Further reading

• “Entry #7921”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

逐

(Jōyō kanji)

1. pursue
2. drive away
3. chase
4. accomplish
5. attain
6. commit

Readings

• Go-on: じく (jiku)
• Kan-on: ちく (chiku, Jōyō)
• Kun: おう (ou, 逐う)^{←おふ (ofu, 逐ふ, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

逐 • (chuk, jeok) (hangeul 축, 적, revised chuk, jeok, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, chŏk, Yale chwuk, cek)

1. chase, expel
2. one by one

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 逐 (trục, chục, giục)

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