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棘

棘

Translingual

Han character

棘 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木月木月 (DBDB), four-corner 55992, composition ⿰朿朿)

References

  • KangXi: page 532, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14938
  • Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1227, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+68D8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 棘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (棘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
棘 *krɯɡ
襋 *krɯɡ
蕀 *krɯɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 棘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 紀力切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kik̚/
Li
Rong		 /kiək̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 棘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kik ›
Old
Chinese		 /*krək/
English thorns

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 棘
Reading # 1/1
No. 5745
Phonetic
component		 棘
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 殛
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯɡ/

Definitions

棘

  1. jujube tree
  2. thorns, brambles

Japanese

Kanji

棘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
棘
とげ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

棘 ‎(hiragana とげ, romaji toge)

  1. thorn

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
棘
いばら
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

umara → ubara → ibara.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

棘 ‎(hiragana いばら, romaji ibara)

  1. a shrub with thorns: a bramble, a briar
  2. thorn
  3. a thorny flower of the genus Rosa: a rose
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 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

棘 • ‎(geuk) (hangeul 극, revised geuk, McCune-Reischauer kŭk, Yale ****)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棘 (gấc, cức)

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