碩

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See also: 硕
碩 U+78A9, 碩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78A9
← 碨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 碪 →

Translingual

Han character

碩 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口一月金 (MRMBC), four-corner 11686, composition ⿰石頁)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 833, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24338
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1250, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2442, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+78A9

Chinese

trad. 碩
simp. 硕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 碩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (石) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
柘 *tjaɡs
妬 *taːɡs
蠹 *taːɡs
沰 *taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
拓 *tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
橐 *tʰaːɡ
袥 *tʰaːɡ
驝 *tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
斫 *tjaɡ
磭 *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔 *rtaːɡ
跖 *tjaɡ
石 *djaɡ
碩 *djaɡ
祏 *djaɡ
鉐 *djaɡ
鼫 *djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djaɡ) : phonetic 石 (OC *djaɡ) + semantic 頁.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sia̍k/se̍k - literary;
  • si̍t - vernacular.
Rime
Character 碩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 常隻切
Baxter dzyek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑiajk̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʑiɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭɛk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sik6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 碩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shuò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyek ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Ak/
English great, stately

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 碩
Reading # 1/1
No. 11471
Phonetic
component 		石
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		石
Old
Chinese 		/*djaɡ/

Definitions

碩

  1. large; big
  2. great; eminent
  3. beautiful; fine
  4. firm; stable
  5. Short for 碩士／硕士 (shuòshì, “master's degree”).
  6. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

碩

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. large
  2. great
  3. eminent

Readings

  • Go-on: じゃく (jaku)
  • Kan-on: せき (seki)
  • Kun: おおきい (ōkī, 碩きい)

Korean

Hanja

碩 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碩 (thạc, thượt)

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