漆

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See also: 柒
漆 U+6F06, 漆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F06
← 漅
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 漇 →

Translingual

Han character

漆 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水木人水 (EDOE), four-corner 34132, composition ⿰氵桼)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18108
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1053, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1716, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6F06

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
漆 *sʰiɡ
桼 *sʰiɡ
膝 *siɡ
厀 *siɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰiɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 桼 (OC *sʰiɡ, “resin used to make varnish”). From earlier 桼 (OC *sʰiɡ, “varnish; lacquer”).

Etymology 1

trad. 漆
simp. # 漆
2nd round simp. 㲺
alternative forms 桼
溙

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsəj (“medicine; juice; paint”). Cognate with Jingpho tsì (“medicine”), Tibetan རྩི (rtsi, “juice; fluid; paint”), Burmese ဆေး (hce:, “medicine; potion; poison; paint”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chhat - vernacular (“paint; to paint”);
  • chhit - literary.
Rime
Character 漆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 親吉切
Baxter tshit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰit̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰit̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰiĕt̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰĭĕt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cat1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 漆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshit ›
Old
Chinese 		/*i/
English varnish tree

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 漆
Reading # 1/1
No. 9926
Phonetic
component 		桼
Rime
group 		質
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		七
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰiɡ/

Definitions

漆

  1. lacquer tree; varnish tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum)
  2. paint; lacquer; varnish
  3. to paint; to varnish
  4. (literary) black; dark
  5. Name of several rivers.
  6. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Iban: chat
  • → Zhuang: caet

Etymology 2

trad. 漆
simp. # 漆

Pronunciation

Definitions

漆

  1. Only used in 漆漆.

Japanese

Kanji

漆

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: しち (shichi)
  • Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: うるし (urushi, 漆, Jōyō)
  • Nanori: うる (uru)

Etymology

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漆 (urushi): a traditional red lacquerware serving set.
Kanji in this term
漆
うるし
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Appears to be derived from Old Japanese root uru, as in terms such as classical Japanese 潤う (urufu) → modern 潤う (uruou, “to be moist”), うるうる (uruuru, “wetly, moistly”, adverb). Probably from the way that a lacquered surface glistens as if wet.

Pronunciation

Noun

漆(うるし) • (urushi) 

  1. lacquer
  2. lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum)

Descendants

References

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

Korean

Hanja

漆 (eumhun 옻 칠 (ot chil))
漆 (eumhun 일곱 칠 (ilgop chil))
漆 (eumhun 삼갈 칠 (samgal chil))

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Vietnamese

Han character

漆: Hán Việt readings: tất[1]

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References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
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