脊

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脊 U+810A, 脊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-810A
← 脉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 脋 →

Translingual

Han character

脊 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火金月 (FCB), four-corner 11227)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 982, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29472
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2070, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+810A

Chinese

trad. 脊
simp. # 脊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 脊
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (脊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脊 *ʔseɡ
蹐 *ʔseɡ
鶺 *ʔseɡ
塉 *zeɡ
瘠 *zeɡ
膌 *zeɡ

Originally a Pictogram (象形) of a fish spine. 肉 was added later to distinguish it. The top component corrupted into 𠦬, making it a Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔseɡ) : phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs) + semantic 肉 (“flesh”)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiak/chek - literary;
  • chit/chiah - vernacular.
Note:
  • zig4 - literary;
  • ziah4 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 脊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 資昔切
Baxter tsjek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡siᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡siɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡siæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡siajk̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡siɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡si̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ji
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsjek ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ek/
English spine, backbone

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 脊
Reading # 1/1
No. 5782
Phonetic
component 		脊
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		積
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔseɡ/

Definitions

脊

  1. (anatomy) spine; backbone
  2. (of terrain, rooms, etc.) ridgeline; ridge; spine; ridge beam
  3. (of books, knives, etc.) spine
  4. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

脊

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. height, stature

Readings

Definitions

Kanji in this term
脊
せい
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 脊 – see the following entry.
【背せい】6
height
(This term, 脊, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 脊 (MC tsjek). Recorded as Middle Korean 쳑〮 (chyék) (Yale: chyek) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

脊 (eumhun 등마루 척 (deungmaru cheok))

  1. Hanja form? of 척 (“spine; backbone”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

脊: Hán Nôm readings: tích

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