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U+684C, 桌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-684C

[U+684B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+684D]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 
Traditional
Simplified
Japanese
Korean

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 75, +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜日木 (YAD), four-corner 21904, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 525, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14766
  • Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1198, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+684C

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin edit

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rteːwɢ) : phonetic (OC *rteːwɢ, high) + semantic (tree; wood) – table. The bottom of has merged with or been replaced by .

Etymology edit

From (OC *rteːwɢ, “high”), as tables are relatively tall (compared to other pieces of furniture like ).

Similar descriptive derivations for pieces of furniture include: (“to climb”) > (“stool”); (“to lean”) > (“chair”).

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • toh - vernacular;
  • tok - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuo⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuo⁴⁴/
/t͡suo⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂuo²¹/
/t͡suo²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuə²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fo²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fə¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡suɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡suo²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡so³¹/
Guiyang /t͡so²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂoʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suaʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡suʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡suaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡so⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡so²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sok̚¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sok̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœk̚³/
Nanning /t͡sœk̚³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sœk̚³/
/t͡sʰœk̚³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /tɔk̚³²/
/toʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /tɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /toʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdo⁵⁵/
/so³¹/ 訓床

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (10)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter traewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ȶɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/ȶɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zok3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhuō
Middle
Chinese
‹ træwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁrawk/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English table

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17767
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rteːwɢ/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. table; desk; stand
    杯子  ―  Bēizǐ zài zhuō shàng.  ―  The cup is on the table.
  2. Classifier for tablefuls of dishes or people: table
      ―  zhuō cài  ―  a table of dishes
  3. (Hokkien) feast; banquet

Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (たく) (taku)
  • Korean: 탁(卓) (tak)

Others:

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

  • On (unclassified): たく (taku)

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: trác[1][2][3], trướp

  1. (obsolete) a table

References edit