隻

See also: 只

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 隹 (“bird”) + 又 (“hand”)

To hold one bird is 隻; to hold two birds is 雙.

Han character

隻 (radical 172 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE), X人土水 (XOGE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿱隹又)

1. single, one of a pair, lone

References

• KangXi: page 1364, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96BB

See also

• 蒦

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Chinese

		-
trad.		隻
simp.		只

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zek³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chit, chí
• Min Nan (POJ): chiah / chek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zek³
    • Yale: jek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzek⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chit, chí
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zid5, zi3
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah / chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah / tsik
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/, /t͡ɕɪk̚³²/
  • Note: chiah - vernacular, chek - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (隻, reconstructed)
Character (隻), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 昔 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 之石切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕiᴇk̚/	/t͡ɕi̯ɛk̚/	/t͡ɕiɛk̚/	/t͡ɕiɛk̚/	/ciajk̚/	/t͡ɕĭɛk̚/	/t͡ɕiæk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (隻, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
隻								zhī								‹ tsyek ›								/*tek/								single
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
隻					17243					隻					錫					0					隻					/*tjaːɡ/

Classifier

隻

1. measure word for one of a pair
2. measure word for certain animals, boats or containers

Compounds

Derived terms

隻身 隻言片語 隻字不提

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

隻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せき (seki)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu)

Counter

隻 (hiragana せき, romaji -seki)

1. boats or ships

   一隻 (いっせき)

   isseki

   one ship

2. one of two, one of a pair
3. birds, fish, or arrows

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Korean

Hanja

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

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References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隻 (chích, chiếc, chếch, chệch, xếch, xệch, chỉ)

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