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腋 U+814B, 腋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-814B
← 腊
[U+814A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 腌 →
[U+814C]

Translingual

Han character

腋 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月卜人大 (BYOK), four-corner 70247, composition ⿰月夜)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 986, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29615
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1439, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2090, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+814B

Chinese

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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *laːɡ): semantic 肉 (“flesh”) + phonetic 夜 (OC *laːɡs).

Originally written 亦, see there for more.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak ~ *C-jak (“arm; hand; wing”), either via *jak (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007) or *lak (Shi, 2000; Handel, 2009). Compare Mizo zak (“armpit”), Tibetan ལག་པ (lag pa, “arm; hand”), Burmese လက် (lak, “arm; hand”).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

腋

  1. armpit; underarm; axilla
  2. (botany) axil
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 掖 (“to help; to assist”)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 胳肢窩 (“armpit; underarm”) [map]
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Compounds

  • 一狐之腋
  • 一腋
  • 事生肘腋
  • 兩腋生風 / 两腋生风
  • 兩腋風生 / 两腋风生
  • 千狐腋
  • 山腋
  • 提腋
  • 狐腋
  • 禍生肘腋 / 祸生肘腋 (huòshēngzhǒuyè)
  • 縫腋 / 缝腋
  • 肘腋
  • 肘腋之患
  • 肘腋之憂 / 肘腋之忧
  • 胸腋
  • 腋下 (yèxià)
  • 腋毛 (yèmáo)
  • 腋氣 / 腋气
  • 腋窩 / 腋窝 (yèwō)
  • 腋翅
  • 腋臊
  • 腋臭 (yèchòu)
  • 腋芽
  • 葉腋 / 叶腋
  • 變生肘腋 / 变生肘腋 (biànshēngzhǒuyè)
  • 集腋
  • 集腋成裘 (jíyèchéngqiú)
  • 集腋為裘 / 集腋为裘
  • 雉頭狐腋 / 雉头狐腋
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Japanese

Kanji

腋

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. armpit, underarm, axilla

Readings

  • Kan-on: えき (eki)、せき (seki)
  • Kun: わき (waki, 腋)

Etymology

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For pronunciation and definitions of 腋 – see the following entry.
【脇わき】S
[noun] (anatomy) the armpit, the underarm
[noun] the underarm area of clothing
[noun] a tangent, such as in a conversation
[noun] something in a secondary and supporting role:
[noun] in ancient Japan, an assistant to the 春宮坊 (Tōgūbō, rank title; responsible for administering eastern provinces)
[noun] in the medieval period, old name for 関脇 (sekiwake, sumō rank)
[noun] in 能楽 (nōgaku, “Noh theatre”), the supporting role played alongside the main protagonist
[noun] in 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, recitation accompanying a puppet show), the supporting reciter
[noun] in 邦楽 (hōgaku, traditional Japanese music), the accompaniment
[noun] something of lesser importance, something on the back burner (often used in constructions such as 脇にする (waki ni suru, “to put off to the side”), 脇になる (waki ni naru, “to become off to the side”).)
[noun] short for 脇(わき)能(のう) (wakinō): a type of Noh theatre, performed first in a series of performances, wherein a god or spirit prays for a peaceful reign for the emperor
[noun] short for 脇(わき)句(く) (wakiku): the two seven-syllable lines of poetry following the 発句 (hokku, the first three lines of a renga, of 17 syllables and later serving as the haiku form)
[noun] short for 脇(わき)百(びゃく)姓(しょう) (waki-byakushō): lower-ranking commoners in the Edo period and earlier
[noun] somewhere, someone, or something else
Alternative spelling
掖
(This term, 腋, is an alternative spelling (less common) of the above term.)

References

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 腋 (MC yek). Recorded as Middle Korean ᄋᆡᆨ〮 (óyk) (Yale: óyk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

腋 (eumhun 겨드랑이 액 (gyeodeurang'i aek))

  1. hanja form? of 액 (“armpit”)

Compounds

  • 액모 (腋毛, aengmo)
  • 액와 (腋窩, aegwa)
  • 액취 (腋臭, aekchwi)
  • 액취증 (腋臭症, aekchwijeung)

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Han character

腋: Hán Nôm readings: dạ; dịch; nách; nịch

  1. chữ Nôm form of nách (“armpit”)

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