棘

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棘 U+68D8, 棘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68D8
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棙 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 棘
alternative forms 撠 to prick
𣡍
𭫼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 棘
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (棘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
棘 *krɯɡ
襋 *krɯɡ
蕀 *krɯɡ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 棘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 蒸 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 紀力切
Baxter kik
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gik1
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. * 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. thorny bush; bramble
  3. thorns
  4. thorny
  5. to prick
  6. Synonym of 戟 (jǐ, “halberd”)

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

棘

  1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 撠 (kik1, “to be stuck”)

Japanese

Kanji

棘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

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Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
棘
とげ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

棘(とげ) • (toge) 

  1. thorn

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
棘
いばら
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

umara → ubara → ibara.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

棘(いばら) or 棘(イバラ) • (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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

棘 • (geuk) (hangeul 극, revised geuk, McCune–Reischauer kŭk, Yale kuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棘: Hán Nôm readings: gấc, cức

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