職

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See also: 职, 耺, and 𫟉
職 U+8077, 職
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8077
← 聶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 聸 →

Translingual

Han character

職 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜戈日 (SJYIA), four-corner 13150, composition ⿰耳戠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 970, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29183
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8077

Chinese

trad. 職
simp. 职
alternative forms 聀
軄
𫟉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 職
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (戠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
識 *tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
幟 *tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
織 *tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
熾 *tʰjɯɡs
樴 *dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
職 *tjɯɡ
軄 *tjɯɡ
戠 *tjɯɡ
膱 *tjɯɡ
蟙 *tjɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjɯɡ) : semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 戠 (OC *tjɯɡ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiak/chek - literary;
  • chit - vernacular.
Rime
Character 職
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之翼切
Baxter tsyik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cik̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiək̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭək̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zik1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 職
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyik ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tək/
English duties of office

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 職
Reading # 1/1
No. 17252
Phonetic
component 		戠
Rime
group 		職
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		職
Old
Chinese 		/*tjɯɡ/

Definitions

職

  1. duty; profession
  2. office; post

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 職
Kyūjitai
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職󠄃
職+&#xE0103;?
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Alternative forms

Kanji

職

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
職
しょく
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 職 (MC tsyik).

Pronunciation

Noun

職(しょく) • (shoku) 

  1. employment
  2. (roleplaying games) class; occupation
    回復(かいふく)職(しょく) ― kaifuku-shoku ― medic

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1737 (paper), page 920 (digital)
  2. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 982 (paper), page 504 (digital)
  3. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

職 (eumhun 벼슬/직책 직 (byeoseul/jikchaek jik))

  1. hanja form? of 직 (“duty; profession”)
  2. hanja form? of 직 (“office; post”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

職: Hán Nôm readings: chức, chắc, giấc, xắc, chếch, xức

  • variant: 聀 "chức"
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Readings

  • Nôm: chắc, chức, giấc, thức

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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