隙

• In all regions except Taiwan, the middle right component is written as 日, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi Dictionary.
• In Taiwan, the middle right component is written as 白 instead.
• In all regions except South Korea, the top right component is written similar to 小 with a middle vertical stroke without ending hook (丨 instead of usual 亅)
• In South Korea, the top right component is written as 小 with a middle vertical stroke that has an ending hook (亅).

隙 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+11 in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), 阜+10 in Chinese (mainland China, Hong Kong), Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in Chinese in traditional Chinese, 12 strokes in mainland China, 13 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 弓中火日火 (NLFAF) or 弓中火竹火 (NLFHF), four-corner 7929₆, composition ⿰阝𡭴(GHJKV) or ⿰阝𡮂(T))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1359, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41792
• Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4150, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9699

Possibly related to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns, “space, gap”) (Wang, 1982).

Outside of Chinese, compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *kak (“to crack; to rend; to split”), Jingpho (kaʔ³¹, “to crack”) (Sagart, 2017).

隙

1. crack; crevice; gap
2. free time; spare time
3. opportunity (to take advantage of)
4. enmity; resentment; grudge

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “隙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

(Jōyō kanji)

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• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: けき (keki)
• Kan’yō-on: げき (geki, Jōyō)
• Kun: すき (suki, 隙, Jōyō)、ひま (hima, 隙)

• (Tokyo) すき (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

隙(すき) • (suki) 

1. gap; space

   Synonym: 隙間 (sukima)

2. (specifically) gap in defenses

   隙(すき)あり！

   Suki ari!

   You're open!

• 隙(すき)間(ま) (sukima)
• 隙(すき)あらば自(じ)分(ぶん)語(がた)り (suki araba jibun-gatari)

• → English: suki

From Middle Chinese 隙 (MC khjaek). Recorded as Middle Korean 극〯 (kǔk) (Yale: kuk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

隙

Wikisource

隙 (eumhun 틈 극 (teum geuk))

1. hanja form^? of 극 (“crack; crevice; gap”)

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

隙: Hán Việt readings: khích^[1][2][3]
隙: Nôm readings: khích^[1][2]

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