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Translingual
Han character
隻 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE) or 難人土水 (XOGE), four-corner 20407, composition ⿱隹又)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1364, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41941
- Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 26
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4090, character 10
- Unihan data for U+96BB
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Chinese
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 隹 (“short-tailed bird”) + 又 (“hand”).
To hold one bird is 隻; to hold two birds is 雙.
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek (“one”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Gan (Wiktionary): zah6
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): zeh4
- Northern Min (KCR): ciă
- Eastern Min (BUC): ciáh
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zia6 / zie6
- Southern Min
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 7tsaq / 7tseq
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zha6 / zhr6
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zhī
- Zhuyin: ㄓ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
- Wade–Giles: chih1
- Yale: jr̄
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
- Palladius: чжи (čži)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: zi1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: z
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zek3
- Yale: jek
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzek8
- Guangdong Romanization: zég3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɛːk̚³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: ziak1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡siak̚³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: zah6
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡saʔ⁵/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chak
- Hakka Romanization System: zagˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: zag5
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sak̚²/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: zhag
- Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃak⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: zeh4
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡səʔ²/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ciă
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sia²⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ciáh
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡siɑʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Nanri)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zia6
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciā
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sia¹¹/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zia6
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sia²¹/
- (Jiangkou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zie6
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sie¹¹/
- (Putian, Nanri)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
- Tâi-lô: tsik
- Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
- Tâi-lô: tsiak
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siak̚⁵/
Note:
- chiah - vernacular;
- chek/chiak - literary.
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: tsyek
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*tek/
- (Zhengzhang): /*tjaːɡ/
Definitions
隻
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) one bird
- single
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, mathematics) odd
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alone
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unique
- Classifier for one of a pair. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- Classifier for birds and certain animals (especially limbed or small, grabbable by hand).
- Classifier for symmetrical body parts, limbs, hands, feet.
- Classifier for certain vessels, containers, utensils and objects worn on or grabbable by hand.
- Classifier for boats.
- Classifier for songs.
- (dialectal, humorous or derogatory) Classifier for people.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for kinds or varieties.
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) Classifier for months of prison sentence.
Synonyms
Compounds
- 三隻手 / 三只手 (sānzhīshǒu)
- 不隻 / 不只
- 別具隻眼 / 别具只眼 (biéjùzhīyǎn)
- 匹馬隻輪 / 匹马只轮
- 卜數隻偶 / 卜数只偶
- 單夫隻婦 / 单夫只妇
- 孤形隻影 / 孤形只影
- 孤文隻義 / 孤文只义
- 孤身隻影 / 孤身只影 (gūshēnzhīyǐng)
- 察隻 / 察只
- 形單影隻 / 形单影只 (xíngdānyǐngzhī)
- 形孤影隻 / 形孤影只
- 形隻影單 / 形只影单 (xíngzhīyǐngdān)
- 影隻形單 / 影只形单
- 影隻形孤 / 影只形孤
- 斗酒隻雞 / 斗酒只鸡
- 片文隻事 / 片文只事
- 片紙隻字 / 片纸只字
- 片言隻字 / 片言只字
- 片言隻語 / 片言只语 (piànyánzhīyǔ)
- 片詞隻句 / 片词只句
- 片語隻字 / 片语只字
- 片語隻辭 / 片语只辞
- 片鱗隻甲 / 片鳞只甲
- 牛隻 / 牛只 (niúzhī)
- 狗隻 / 狗只 (gǒuzhī)
- 狼隻 / 狼只
- 獨具隻眼 / 独具只眼
- 當場隻手 / 当场只手
- 羊隻 / 羊只 (yángzhī)
- 船隻 / 船只 (chuánzhī)
- 艦隻 / 舰只 (jiànzhī)
- 虎隻 / 虎只
- 蛋隻 / 蛋只 (dànzhī)
- 象隻 / 象只
- 豬隻 / 猪只 (zhūzhī)
- 豹隻 / 豹只
- 貓隻 / 猫只 (māozhī)
- 踦隻 / 踦只
- 隻偶 / 只偶
- 隻千古 / 只千古
- 隻句 / 只句
- 隻字 / 只字
- 隻字不提 / 只字不提 (zhīzìbùtí)
- 隻字未提 / 只字未提
- 隻字片言 / 只字片言
- 隻字片語 / 只字片语
- 隻履 / 只履
- 隻影 / 只影
- 隻影全無 / 只影全无
- 隻手 / 只手 (zhīshǒu)
- 隻手單拳 / 只手单拳
- 隻手擎天 / 只手擎天
- 隻手空拳 / 只手空拳
- 隻手遮天 / 只手遮天 (zhīshǒuzhētiān)
- 隻揪 / 只揪
- 隻日 / 只日
- 隻眼 / 只眼
- 隻眼獨具 / 只眼独具
- 隻立 / 只立
- 隻翼 / 只翼
- 隻耦 / 只耦
- 隻言片語 / 只言片语 (zhīyánpiànyǔ)
- 隻語 / 只语
- 隻身 / 只身 (zhīshēn)
- 隻身孤影 / 只身孤影
- 隻輪不反 / 只轮不反
- 隻輪無反 / 只轮无反
- 隻雞 / 只鸡
- 隻雞斗酒 / 只鸡斗酒
- 隻雞樽酒 / 只鸡樽酒
- 隻雞絮酒 / 只鸡絮酒
- 隻騎不反 / 只骑不反
- 隻鳳 / 只凤
- 雞隻 / 鸡只 (jīzhī)
- 鞋隻 / 鞋只
- 馬隻 / 马只
- 騾隻 / 骡只
- 驢隻 / 驴只
- 魚隻 / 鱼只 (yúzhī)
- 鳥隻 / 鸟只
- 鴨隻 / 鸭只 (yāzhī)
- 鵝隻 / 鹅只 (ézhī)
- 鸞孤鳳隻 / 鸾孤凤只
- 鸞隻鳳單 / 鸾只凤单
- 鹿隻 / 鹿只 (lùzhī)
- 鼠隻 / 鼠只 (shǔzhī)
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 獲 (“to catch; to obtain; to get; to receive; to win; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 獲). |
Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 雙 (“two; double; twin; even; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 雙). |
References
- “隻”, 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–
- (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “只”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 272.
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Japanese
Kanji
隻
Readings
Counter
- boats or ships
- 一隻
- isseki
- one ship
- 一隻
- one of two, one of a pair
- birds, fish, or arrows
Korean
Hanja
隻 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)
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Vietnamese
Han character
隻: Hán Nôm readings: chiếc, chếch, chệch, chích, xếch, xệch, chỉ
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