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U+53D4, 叔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D4

[U+53D3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53D5]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 29, +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜火水 (YFE), four-corner 27940, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 165, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 376, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 396, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+53D4

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *hljɯwɢ) : phonetic (OC *hljɯwɢ, wooden stake) + semantic (hand) – using a wooden stake to dig the ground. Later borrowed for other uses.

Etymology 1[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Sagart (1999) connects it to (OC *ᵃtuk, “middle”) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *ᵇs-tuk, the prefix possibly having a nominalizing function.

Alternatively, Starostin proposes a possible derivation from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(h)u (~ -iw) (nephew) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *tikʷ (< *tiw-k?) ~ *tu-k.

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • chek/chiak/cheh - vernacular (“paternal uncle; uncle; dad”);
  • siok - literary.
Note:
  • zêg4 - vernacular;
  • sog4 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter syuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ɕiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
suk1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shū
Middle
Chinese
‹ syuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tiwk/
English 3rd of 4 brothers

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11759
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljɯwɢ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. third brother (of four)
  2. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
  3. brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
  4. uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
  5. (historical) shu, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy
    • 4th cent. BC, 《竹書紀年》 (Bamboo Annals), s.v. "周宣王" (Xuan King):
      五年... 秋八月,方帥師伐荊蠻
      Year 5 [c. 820 BC]... Autumn, Month 8: Fangshu ("Uncle" Fang) led a force to slaughter the Jingman.
    三監是管叔鮮、蔡叔度和霍叔處。
    The Three Guards were Guanshu Xian, Caishu Du, and Huoshu Chu.
  6. (Mainland China Hokkien, euphemistic) dad; father
  7. a surname
Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: Ah Chek
  • Malay: encik
  • Indonesian: encik
  • Tagalog: Intsik
  • Cebuano: Insik
  • Thai: เจ๊ก (jék)
  • Khmer: ចិក (cək)
  • Vietnamese: Chệch

Etymology 2[edit]

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Cognate with (OC *qʰljɯw, “to gather; to harvest”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter syuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ɕiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
suk1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shū
Middle
Chinese
‹ syuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tiwk/
English gather, harvest

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11759
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljɯwɢ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. (obsolete) to gather; to harvest

Etymology 3[edit]

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Alternative form of (shū, good)

Etymology 4[edit]

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Alternative form of (shū, legume)

Etymology 5[edit]

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. to decline; to wane
  2. declining; waning; last; end

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. uncle
  2. youth

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC syuwk). Recorded as Middle Korean 슉〮 (syúk) (Yale: syuk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 아저씨 (ajeossi suk))

  1. Hanja form? of (uncle).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: thúc

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