冊

冊 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT) or 難月廿 (XBT), four-corner 7744₀, composition ⿻冂卄 or ⿻𦉫一)

1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №44

• 姍, 柵, 𣧱, 𦙱, 𪑃, 刪, 𠂨, 𣫳, 𣌧, 𭇒, 𮟰
• 珊, 粣, 跚, 銏, 笧 (For all regions except mainland China and Vietnamese Nom characters which contain 册 instead. Exception: Korean 跚 contains 册) - See Han unification

• 册 (Variant form used in simplified Chinese and Vietnamese Nom)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 129, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1515
• Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 99, character 5
• Unihan data for U+518A

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 冊 (Classical)
• chheh (Southern Min)

Historical forms of the character 冊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script
Oracle bone script j04541 j04542 j04543 j04544 j04545 j04546 j04547 j04548 j04549 j04550 Bronze inscriptions b02679 b02680 b02681 b02682 b02683 b02684 b02685 b02686 b02687 b02688 b02689 b02690 b02691 b02692 b02693 b02694 b02695 b02696 b02697 b02698 b02699 b02700 b02701 b02702 b02703 b02704 b02705 b02706 b02707 b02708 b02709 b02710 b02711 b02712 b02713 b02714 b02715 b02716 b02717 b02718 b02719 b02720 b02721 b02722 b02723 b02724 b02725 b02726 b02727 b02728 b02729 b02730 b02731 b02732 b02733 b02734 Transcribed ancient scripts L38181 L38182 L38183 L27838 L27839 L27841 L27842 L27843 L27844 L27845 L27846 L27847 L27848 L27849 L27850 L27851
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Pictogram (象形) – bamboo slips strung together. See also 侖, 扁, and 典. Similar but unrelated to 龠. The contemporary stylized form 册 is unrelated to 朋.

冊

1. (literary or Southern and Puxian Min) book
2. volume
3. imperial edict
4. to grant in an imperial edict

   冊立／册立  ―  cèlì  ―  to hold a coronation ceremony

5. Classifier for books.
6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to organize and stack neatly

• 書／书 (shū)

• “Entry #1322”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “冊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 册)

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふみ (fumi, 冊)

冊(さつ) • (-satsu) 

1. books

   世(せ)界(かい)を変(か)えた10(じゅう)冊(さつ)の本(ほん)

   Sekai o Kaeta Jū-satsu no Hon

   10 Books that Changed the World

1. “冊”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

From Middle Chinese 冊 (MC tsrheak).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

冊

Wikisource

冊 (eumhun 책 책 (chaek chaek))

1. hanja form^? of 책 (“book”)

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

冊: Hán Nôm readings: sách

1. chữ Hán form of sách (“book”).