敕

See also: 勅 and 敇

敕 U+6555, 敕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6555 ← 敔 [U+6554] CJK Unified Ideographs 敖 → [U+6556]

Translingual

Han character

敕 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木中人大 (DLOK), four-corner 5894₀, composition ⿰束攵)

1. an imperial order or decree

Derived characters

• 整

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 471, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13225
• Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1460, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6555

Chinese

simp. and trad.		敕
alternative forms		勅 勑／敕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 敕
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
敕	*tʰɯɡ
勅	*tʰɯɡ
鷘	*tʰɯɡ
慗	*tʰɯɡ
遫	*tʰɯɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 柬 + 攴.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chì (chi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cik¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): ték
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): têg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chì
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chìh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴
    • Yale: chr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyh
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cik¹
    • Yale: chīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: qig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ték
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɛiʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thek
    • Tâi-lô: thik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: teg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɪk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: têg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰek̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: trhik

Rime
Character	敕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	蒸 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	恥力切
Baxter	trhik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰik̚/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiək̚/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰɯɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	敕
Reading #	1/1
No.	1485
Phonetic component	敕
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	敕
Old Chinese	/*tʰɯɡ/
Notes	金文左從東（種），象下種，同說文臿（插）地義，而非束聲

Definitions

敕

1. (literary) to warn; to caution; to command
2. (historical) imperial order

Compounds

• 口敕
• 告敕
• 宣敕
• 戒敕
• 敕令 (chìlìng)
• 敕使
• 敕勒
• 敕勒歌
• 敕厲／敕厉
• 敕命 (chìmìng)
• 敕封 (chìfēng)
• 敕戒
• 敕授
• 敕旨 (chìzhǐ)
• 敕書／敕书 (chìshū)
• 敕法
• 敕牒
• 敕葬
• 敕賜／敕赐
• 敕贈／敕赠
• 敕身
• 空頭敕／空头敕
• 聖敕／圣敕

 

References

• “敕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	勅
Kyūjitai	敕

Kanji

敕

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 勅)

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Readings

• Go-on: ちき (chiki)
• Kan-on: ちょく (choku)
• Kun: いましめる (imashimeru, 敕める); みことのり (mikotonori, 敕)

Korean

Hanja

敕 • (chik) (hangeul 칙, revised chik, McCune–Reischauer ch'ik, Yale chik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

敕: Hán Nôm readings: sắc

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