寂

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 叔 (“sorting beans”) – quietly sorting beans at home.

Han character

寂 (radical 40 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十卜火水 (JYFE), four-corner 3094₇)

1. still, silent, quiet, desolate

References

• KangXi: page 288, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7200
• Dae Jaweon: page 569, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 938, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5BC2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

寂 (Yale jik6)

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Japanese

Kanji

寂 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゃく (jaku), せき (seki)
• Kun: さびしい (sabishii), さび (sabi)

Compounds

• 静寂 (せいじゃく)

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Korean

Hanja

寂 (hangeul 적, revised jeok, McCune-Reischauer chŏk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寂 (pinyin jì (ji4), nìng (ning4), Wade-Giles chi⁴, ning⁴)

Compounds

• 寂寞

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Vietnamese

Han character

寂 (tịch)