坼

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坼 U+577C, 坼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-577C
← 坻
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 坽 →

Translingual

Han character

坼 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土竹一卜 (GHMY), four-corner 42141, composition ⿰土斥)

  1. crack
  2. split, open

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 227, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5006
  • Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 433, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+577C

Chinese

trad. 坼
simp. # 坼
alternative forms
 
𡍩
𢯪
𡍔
𤇚
𤖴
𡍩
𢯪
𡍔
𤇚
𤖴
𤗙
㿭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (屰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
斥 *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴 *sŋaːɡs
泝 *sŋaːɡs
愬 *sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡 *sŋaːɡs
塑 *sŋaːɡs
溯 *sŋaːɡs
遻 *ŋaːɡs
柝 *tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚 *ŋaːɡ
諤 *ŋaːɡ
齶 *ŋaːɡ
鍔 *ŋaːɡ
遌 *ŋaːɡ
崿 *ŋaːɡ
偔 *ŋaːɡ
堮 *ŋaːɡ
湂 *ŋaːɡ
鱷 *ŋaːɡ
噩 *ŋaːɡ
咢 *ŋaːɡ
鑩 *ŋaːɡ
鄂 *ŋaːɡ
鰐 *ŋaːɡ
萼 *ŋaːɡ
愕 *ŋaːɡ
顎 *ŋaːɡ
朔 *sŋraːɡ
槊 *sraːwɢ
蒴 *sraːwɢ
坼 *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆 *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆 *ŋraɡ
屰 *ŋraɡ
縌 *ŋraɡ
蝷 *reːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tŋ̊ʰraːɡ) : semantic 图 (“hand”) + phonetic 斥 (OC *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ).

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 坼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ trhæk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Nə-qʰˁ<r>ak/ (W dialect: *qʰˁr- > *r̥ˁ- > trh-)
English split (v.i.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 坼
Reading # 1/1
No. 9471
Phonetic
component 		屰
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		𡍩
Old
Chinese 		/*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ/
Notes 原右從廣屰，注亦作坼

Definitions

坼

  1. † to crack; to break open
  2. † to sprout; to blossom

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

坼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. split
  2. tear
  3. open

Readings

Korean

Hanja

坼 • (tak) (hangeul 탁, revised tak, McCune–Reischauer t'ak)

  1. split
  2. open

Vietnamese

Han character

坼: Hán Nôm readings: sách

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