叕

叕 U+53D5, 叕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D5 ← 叔 [U+53D4] CJK Unified Ideographs 取 → [U+53D6]

Translingual

Han character

叕 (radical 29, 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水水水水 (EEEE), four-corner 7744₇, composition ⿰㕛㕛 or ⿱双双)

Derived characters

• 𬾧, 啜, 㙍, 娺, 𭛶, 惙, 掇, 涰, 𨺝, 𣇽, 腏, 棳, 逫, 畷, 𭿁, 䄌, 𥟒, 𬖤, 綴(缀), 䍳, 蝃, 裰, 諁, 䝌, 䞵, 䟾, 輟(辍), 醊, 錣(𮣵), 䮕, 𩩟, 餟(𬳂), 𩸯, 剟, 敠, 敪, 欼, 毲, 䫎, 鵽, 𠖎, 𡨤, 𬝉, 罬, 窡, 䦤, 𡌭, 歠

References

• KangXi: page 166, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3157
• Dae Jaweon: page 377, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 397, character 4
• Unihan data for U+53D5

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		叕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 叕
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (叕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蝃	*tɯːds, *tjod
欼	*sʰrɯʔ
綴	*tods, *tod
醊	*tods, *tod
畷	*tods, *tod
啜	*tods, *djods, *tod, *tʰjod, *djod
餟	*tods, *tod
腏	*tods, *toːd, *tod
錣	*tods, *rtoːd
輟	*tods, *tod
娺	*tul, *rtoːd
窡	*rtoːd, *rtoːd
鵽	*rtoːd, *rtoːd, *toːd
掇	*toːd, *tod
剟	*toːd, *tod
裰	*toːd
敠	*toːd, *sʰlod
惙	*tod
罬	*tod, *ktod
叕	*tod
歠	*tʰjod
逫	*tud

Pictogram (象形).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade–Giles: cho2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³
    • Yale: jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈˠiuᴇt̚/

Rime
Character	叕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	薛 (84)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	陟劣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷᵚiet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈwiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*trot-s/, /*trot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	叕	叕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ trjwejH ›	‹ trjwet ›
Old Chinese	/*trot-s/	/*trot/
English	stitch (n.?)	stitch
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	叕
Reading #	1/1
No.	17812
Phonetic component	叕
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	輟
Old Chinese	/*tod/
Notes	綴初文

Definitions

叕

1. to connect

   Synonym: 綴／缀 (zhuì)

Etymology 2

Reinterpreted as four 又 (yòu, “again”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yòu, yòuyòuyòuyòu (you⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˋ, ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yu4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yòuyòuyòuyòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yu4 yu4 yu4 yu4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yowyowyowyow
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yòuyòuyòuyòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

叕

1. (Internet slang, emphatic) again and again; repeatedly

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C00977

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Japanese

Kanji

叕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to concatenate
2. to compose
3. covered in a gauze-like net

Readings

• Go-on: てち (techi)
• Kan-on: てつ (tetsu); げつ (getsu)
• Kun: つづる (tsuzuru); すみやか (sumiyaka)

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Korean

Hanja

叕 (eum 철 (cheol))

1. (archaic) Hanja form^? of 철 (“to put together in a file”).