椎

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椎 U+690E, 椎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-690E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 椏 →

Translingual

Han character

椎 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木人土 (DOG), four-corner 40914, composition ⿰木隹)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 536, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15024
  • Dae Jaweon: page 924, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1233, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+690E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 椎
alternative forms 㮅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

椎

  1. vertebra

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

椎

  1. chinquapin (Castanopsis)

Compounds

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What relation is there between 錘, 槌, 鎚, and 椎?”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 椎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直追切
Baxter drwij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɖˠiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖʷᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖjwi/
Li
Rong 		/ȡjui/
Wang
Li 		/ȡwi/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chuí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ceoi4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 椎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chuí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drwij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*k.druj/
English hammer

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 椎
Reading # 1/1
No. 17716
Phonetic
component 		隹
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		鎚
Old
Chinese 		/*dul/

Definitions

椎

  1. hammer; mallet
  2. to pound; to beat
  3. (archaic) simple-minded; slow-witted

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

椎

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
椎
しい
Grade: S
kun'yomi
 シイ on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Noun

椎(しい) or 椎(シイ) • (shī) ←しひ (sifi)?

  1. chinquapin, a tree of the genus Castanopsis

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 椎 (MC drwij). Recorded as Middle Korean 퇴 (thwoy) (Yale: thwoy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

椎 (eumhun 몽치 추 (mongchi chu))

  1. hanja form? of 추 (“mallet”)
  2. hanja form? of 추 (“(anatomy) spine”)

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

椎: Hán Nôm readings: chòi, choi, chùy/chuỳ, dùi, truy, chuy

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