爵

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爵 U+7235, 爵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7235
← 爴
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 父 →

爵 U+FA9E, 爵
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA9E
← 瞧
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 犯 →

爵 U+2F921, 爵
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F921
← 爨
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 牐 →

Translingual

Han character

爵 (Kangxi radical 87, 爪+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月田中戈 (BWLI), four-corner 20746, composition ⿳爫罒𡬠)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 689, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19710
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1102, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2037, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7235

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爵
alternative forms 𠕢
𥥼
Bronze jue (爵 (jué)), c. 11th century BCE

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爵
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 (爵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
釂 *ʔsewɢs
皭 *ʔsewɢs, *zewɢ
爝 *ʔsewɢs, *ʔsewɢ, *zewɢ
爵 *ʔsewɢ
嚼 *zewɢ
穱 *ʔsreːwɢ
灂 *zreːwɢ

Pictogram (象形) of an alcohol vessel in the shape of a sparrow. Many variants showed a hand (又) holding it, now written as 寸. In the seal script form 𢋺, the topmost and middle sections of the vessel are combined, while the legs have corrupted into 鬯 (“cup of wine”). In the modern form, top and middle sections of the vessel are separated into 爫 and 罒 respectively. The bottom right sub-component similar to 艮 is a simplification of 鬯.

Etymology

The sense of feudal title or rank was transferred from the ancient practice of conferring alcohol vessels on meritorious workers (who would also go on to attain the higher feudal ranks).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即略切
Baxter tsjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡siɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡siɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sɨak̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡siak̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sĭak̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡si̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jue
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zoek3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jué
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsjak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ewk/
English nobility, rank

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 爵
Reading # 1/1
No. 7256
Phonetic
component 		爵
Rime
group 		藥
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		爵
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsewɢ/

Definitions

爵

  1. (historical) jue (drinking vessel with three supporting feet)
  2. feudal title or rank
  3. † Alternative form of 雀 (“sparrow”)
    為叢驅爵／为丛驱爵  ―  wèicóngqūjué  ―  to drive the sparrows into the thickets

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 爵
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3][4]
爵󠄂
爵+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
爵󠄄
爵+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

爵

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. jue (vessel)
  2. peerage

Readings

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “爵”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “爵”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎ (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  3. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1388 (paper), page 745 (digital)
  4. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 803 (paper), page 414 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

爵 • (jak) (hangeul 작, revised jak, McCune–Reischauer chak, Yale cak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爵: Hán Nôm readings: tước

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