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刺

刺

刺 U+523A, 刺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-523A
← 刹
[U+5239] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刻 →
[U+523B]
See also: 刾 and 剌

Translingual

Alternative forms

Han character

刺 (radical 18 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木月中弓 (DBLN), four-corner 52900, composition ⿰朿刂)

References

  • KangXi: page 139, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1969
  • Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 333, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+523A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 刺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
債 *ʔsreːɡs, *ʔsreːɡ
積 *ʔseɡs, *ʔseɡ
刺 *sʰeɡs, *sʰeɡ
莿 *sʰeːɡs, *raːds
刾 *sʰeɡs
朿 *sʰeɡs
漬 *zeɡs
耫 *zraːd, *zreːɡ
嘖 *ʔsraːɡ, *ʔsreːɡ, *zreːɡ
梀 *sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
捒 *sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
幘 *ʔsreːɡ
簀 *ʔsreːɡ
嫧 *ʔsreːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sʰeɡ
謮 *ʔsreːɡ
責 *ʔsreːɡ
皟 *sʰreːɡ
憡 *sʰreːɡ
策 *sʰreːɡ
筴 *sʰreːɡ, *kreːb, *keːb
拺 *sʰreːɡ, *sreːɡ
賾 *zreːɡ
鰿 *zreːɡ, *ʔseɡ
擌 *sreːɡ
蹟 *ʔseɡ
襀 *ʔseɡ
磧 *sʰeɡ
洓 *sʰeɡ
績 *ʔseːɡ
勣 *ʔseːɡ
樍 *ʔseːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 刺 刺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 支 (11) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 七賜切 七迹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰiᴇH/ /t͡sʰiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰiɛH/ /t͡sʰiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰjɛH/ /t͡sʰiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰiə̆H/ /t͡sʰiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰieH/ /t͡sʰiɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰǐeH/ /t͡sʰĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰie̯H/ /t͡sʰi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cì qi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刺 刺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cì cì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshjeH › ‹ tshjek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ek-s/ /*[tsʰ]ek/
English sharp point, thorn pierce, stab

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 刺 刺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1746 1780
Phonetic
component		 朿 朿
Rime
group		 賜 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 刺 皵
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰeɡs/ /*sʰeɡ/

Definitions

刺

  1. thorn
  2. visiting card
  3. to stab
  4. to prick; to irritate
  5. to prod

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

刺

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
刺
し
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

刺 ‎(hiragana し, romaji shi)

  1. calling card

Noun

刺 ‎(hiragana とげ, romaji toge)

  1. thorn
  2. biting words

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

刺 • ‎(ja, cheok, che) (hangeul 자, 척, 체, McCune-Reischauer cha, ch'ŏk, ch'e, Yale ca, chek, chey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

刺 (thứ, thích, chích)

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