瘠

瘠 U+7620, 瘠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7620 ← 瘟 [U+761F] CJK Unified Ideographs 瘡 → [U+7621]

Translingual

Han character

瘠 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 大火金月 (KFCB), four-corner 0012₇, composition ⿸疒脊)

1. thin, emaciated
2. barren

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 778, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22401
• Dae Jaweon: page 1188, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2691, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7620

Chinese

trad.		瘠
simp. #		瘠
alternative forms		膌 脨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (脊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
脊	*ʔseɡ
蹐	*ʔseɡ
鶺	*ʔseɡ
塉	*zeɡ
瘠	*zeɡ
膌	*zeɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zeɡ): semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 脊 (OC *ʔseɡ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí (ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik³ / zek³ / zik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jí
    • Wade–Giles: chi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zik³ / zek³ / zik⁶
    • Yale: jik / jek / jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁸ / dzek⁸ / dzik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig³ / zég³ / jig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚³/, /t͡sɛːk̚³/, /t͡sɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzjek

Rime
Character	瘠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	秦昔切
Baxter	dzjek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ziæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ziajk̚/
Li Rong	/d͡ziɛk̚/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭɛk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zik6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zeɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瘠
Reading #	1/1
No.	5786
Phonetic component	脊
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	籍
Old Chinese	/*zeɡ/

Adjective

瘠

1. thin; emaciated
2. barren; infertile

Compounds

• 地瘠人稀
• 捐瘠
• 枯瘠
• 柴瘠
• 毀瘠 / 毁瘠
• 溝中瘠 / 沟中瘠
• 瘠人肥己
• 瘠土 (jítǔ)
• 瘠己肥人
• 瘠牛僨豚 / 瘠牛偾豚
• 瘠田 (jítián)
• 瘠瘦
• 瘦瘠 (shòují)
• 瘠薄 (jíbó)
• 确瘠
• 磽瘠 / 硗瘠
• 羸瘠
• 肥瘠 (féijí)
• 臞瘠
• 荒瘠 (huāngjí)
• 貧瘠 / 贫瘠 (pínjí)

References

• “瘠”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 瘠

瘠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. lean, thin
2. barren, sterile

Readings

• On (unclassified): せき (seki)
• Kun: やせる (yaseru)

Korean

Hanja

瘠 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瘠: Hán Nôm readings: tích

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