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Translingual edit
Han character edit
稷 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木田金水 (HDWCE), four-corner 26947, composition ⿰禾畟)
- god of cereals
- minister of agriculture
References edit
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 857, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25207
- Dae Jaweon: page 1282, character 29
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2623, character 5
- Unihan data for U+7A37
Chinese edit
trad. | 稷 | |
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simp. # | 稷 |
Glyph origin edit
Etymology edit
Sagart (2008: 134-136) considers it a cognate of Proto-Austronesian *bəCəŋ (“foxtail millet”) as part of the hypothetical Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian language family. Blust (2013: 713), however, finds this comparison unconvincing because of the apparently arbitrary and phonetically unjustified fluctuation between Old Chinese *-k and Proto-Austronesian *-ŋ.
Cognates of this word are found in a handful of Tibeto-Burman languages, such as Drung tɕɑʔ⁵⁵ (“millet”) and Lhokpu cək (“Setaria italica”) (Sagart, 2008). This etymon should be kept separated from 饎 (OC *kʰljɯs), 芑 (OC *kʰɯʔ) and 穄 (OC *ʔsleds). The first two may belong to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *khrəj (“millet”), while the last one may be related to Proto-Lolo-Burmese *tsap (“millet”), along with Burmese ဆပ် (hcap, “Setaria italica”) and Nuosu ꏹ (jyp, “millet”) (Schuessler, 2007: 299).
Pronunciation edit
Definitions edit
稷
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
- 我蓺黍稷。我黍與與、我稷翼翼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Wǒ yì shǔ jì. Wǒ shǔ yúyú, wǒ jì yìyì. [Pinyin]
- That we might plant our broomcorn millet and foxtail millet; that our broomcorn millet might be abundant, and our foxtail millet luxuriant.
我蓺黍稷。我黍与与、我稷翼翼。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- God of cereals
- † minister of agriculture
Compounds edit
Descendants edit
- → Uzbek: so'k
Japanese edit
Kanji edit
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Readings edit
Etymology edit
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稷 |
きび Hyōgaiji |
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Noun edit
- Alternative form of 黍
Korean edit
Hanja edit
稷 • (jik) (hangeul 직, revised jik, McCune–Reischauer chik, Yale cik)
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