隻

See also: 蒦 and 只

隻 U+96BB, 隻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96BB ← 隺 [U+96BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 隼 → [U+96BC]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		隻
simp.		只*

Glyph origin

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

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zek³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chak
• Min Dong (BUC): ciáh
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiah / chiak / chek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziah⁴

• Wu (Wiktionary): tsaq (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zek³
    • Yale: jek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zég³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chak
    • Hakka Romanization System: zag`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zag⁵
    • IPA: /t͡sak̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciáh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siɑʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiah
    • Tâi-lô: tsiah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiaʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/

Note:

• chiah - vernacular;
• chiak/chek - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ziah⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiah
  • IPA ^(key): /t͡siaʔ²/

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tsaq (T4)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sa̱ʔ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 隻 (一隻)
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹³/
	Qingdao	/tʃz̩²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³¹/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡səʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡səʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡saʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡səʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡sei²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕiʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕi⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/ /ʈ͡ʂa²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sak̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʃɑk̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sɛk̚³/
	Nanning	/t͡sɛk̚³³/ /t͡sek̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sɛk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡sik̚³²/ /t͡siaʔ³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡siɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡si²¹/ /t͡sia²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡siaʔ²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡siak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇk̚/▼

Rime
Character	隻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之石切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciajk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjaːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyek ›
Old Chinese	/*tek/
English	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	隻
Reading #	1/1
No.	17243
Phonetic component	隻
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	隻
Old Chinese	/*tjaːɡ/

Definitions

隻

1. Classifier for one of a pair. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   ⇒ 對

   一隻鞋，一對鞋 / 一只鞋，一对鞋  ―  yī zhī xié, yī duì xié  ―  one shoe, one pair of shoes

2. Classifier for certain animals, boats and containers. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   一隻貓 / 一只猫  ―  yī zhī māo  ―  a cat

3. one bird
4. single
5. alone
6. unique

Compounds

• 三隻手／三只手 (sānzhīshǒu)
• 別具隻眼／别具只眼
• 匹馬隻輪／匹马只轮
• 單夫隻婦／单夫只妇
• 孤形隻影／孤形只影
• 孤身隻影／孤身只影
• 形單影隻／形单影只
• 形孤影隻／形孤影只
• 形隻影單／形只影单
• 影隻形單／影只形单
• 斗酒隻雞／斗酒只鸡
• 片紙隻字／片纸只字
• 片言隻字／片言只字

• 片言隻語／片言只语
• 片語隻字／片语只字
• 片語隻辭／片语只辞
• 獨具隻眼／独具只眼
• 當場隻手／当场只手
• 船隻／船只 (chuánzhī)
• 艦隻／舰只
• 隻字／只字
• 隻字不提／只字不提 (zhīzìbùtí)
• 隻字未提／只字未提
• 隻字片言／只字片言
• 隻字片語／只字片语
• 隻影全無／只影全无

• 隻手單拳／只手单拳
• 隻手擎天／只手擎天
• 隻手空拳／只手空拳
• 隻手遮天／只手遮天
• 隻日／只日
• 隻眼獨具／只眼独具
• 隻立／只立
• 隻言片語／只言片语 (zhīyánpiànyǔ)
• 隻身／只身 (zhīshēn)
• 隻身孤影／只身孤影
• 隻輪不反／只轮不反
• 隻雞絮酒／只鸡絮酒

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 獲 (“to catch; to obtain; to get; to receive; to win; etc.”). (This character, 隻, is a variant form of 獲.)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 雙 (“two-; double; twin; etc.”). (This character, 隻, is a variant form of 雙.)

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Japanese

Kanji

隻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu, 隻つ)

Counter

隻 (hiragana せき, rōmaji -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, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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