昔

Translingual

Han character

昔 (radical 72 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿日 (TA), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱龷日)

1. formerly
2. ancient
3. in the beginning

Derived characters

• 借 惜 醋 錯 耤 猎

References

• KangXi: page 492, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13816
• Dae Jaweon: page 855, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1488, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6614

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Cantonese

Hanzi

昔 (Yale sik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

昔 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せき (seki), しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: むかし (mukashi)

Noun

昔 (hiragana むかし, romaji mukashi)

1. the past, old times
   • 970-999: Utsubo Monogatari (Toshikage)

     むかし、式部大輔、左大弁かけて清原の王ありけり。

   昔と今 — past and the present

   昔の自分 — my past self

   昔からの友達 — a longtime friend ("a friend since old times")

   昔に戻る — to return to the past

2. ancient

   昔の人 — ancient people

   もう昔の話だ。— That's ancient history.

Adverb

昔 (hiragana むかし, romaji mukashi)

1. once

   昔見た映画 — a movie I once saw

References

• 1959 May 18 [c. 970-999], Tama Kōno, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 10: Utsubo Monogatari 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-000-60010-9:

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Korean

Hanja

昔 (hangeul 석, 착, revised seok, chak, McCune-Reischauer sŏk, ch'ak, Yale sek, chak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

昔 (pinyin xí (xi2), Wade-Giles hsi²), xī, cuò

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Middle Chinese

Han character

昔 (*siɛk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昔 (tích, tếch, thách, tách)