職

See also: 职

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 職
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjɯɡ): semantic 耳 ‎(“ear”) + phonetic 戠 ‎(OC *tjɯɡ)

Han characterEdit

職 (radical 128 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十卜戈日 (SJYIA), four-corner 1315₀, composition ⿰耳戠)

1. duty, profession
2. office, post

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 970, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29183
• Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2797, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8077

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ChineseEdit

trad.		職
simp.		职

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhí, tè (zhi², te⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ, ㄊㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳt
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chit

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhí
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ê⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teh
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik¹
    • Yale: jīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳt
    • Hakka Romanization System: ziid`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zid⁵
    • IPA: /t͡sɨt̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit
    • Tâi-lô: tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cid
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕit̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡seʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	職
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之翼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cik̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiək̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjɯɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	職
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhí
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyik ›
Old Chinese	/*tək/
English	duties of office
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	職
Reading #	1/1
No.	17252
Phonetic component	戠
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	職
Old Chinese	/*tjɯɡ/

DefinitionsEdit

職

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

職

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• On: しょく (shoku), とく (toku), しき (shiki)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa), つとめ (tsutome), つかさどる (tsukasadoru)

NounEdit

職 ‎(hiragana しょく, romaji shoku)

1. employment

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

職 • ‎(jik) (hangeul 직, revised jik, McCune-Reischauer chik, Yale cik)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

職 (chức, chắc, giấc, xắc, chếch, xức)

• variant: 聀 "chức"

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ReadingsEdit

• Nôm: chắc, chức, giấc, thức

ReferencesEdit

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999