唧

Translingual

Han character

唧 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口日戈中 (RAIL), four-corner 6702₀)

1. chirping of insects
2. pump

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 634, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5527

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Cantonese

Hanzi

唧 (Yale jik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

唧

Readings

• On: そく (soku), しょく (shoku)
• Kun: かこつ (kakotsu)

• Big5:
  • Hex: AE41
  • Decimal: 44609

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Mandarin

Hanzi

唧 (pinyin jī (ji1), Wade-Giles chi¹)

This character derives from 即, with an added mouth radical to indicate onomatopoeia. It is used in the Poem of Mulan to represent the click-clack or swoosh-woosh of Mulan's weaving. In the version published in The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady: Interpretations of Chinese Poetry, by Han H. Frankel, Yale University Press (1976), this is transcribed as tsiek-tsiek.

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Vietnamese

Han character

唧 (tức, cơ)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 08:01