埴

埴 U+57F4, 埴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57F4 ← 埳 [U+57F3] CJK Unified Ideographs 埵 → [U+57F5]

埴 U+2F853, 埴 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F853 ← 城 [U+2F852] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 堍 → [U+2F854]

Translingual

Han character

埴 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土十月一 (GJBM), four-corner 4411₆, composition ⿰土直)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 231, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5188
• Dae Jaweon: page 467, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 450, character 3
• Unihan data for U+57F4

• Unihan data for U+2F853

Chinese

simp. and trad.		埴
alternative forms		戠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
置	*tɯɡs
值	*dɯɡs, *dɯɡ
植	*dɯɡs, *djɯɡ
埴	*tʰjɯɡs, *djɯɡ
惪	*tɯːɡ
德	*tɯːɡ
稙	*tɯɡ
淔	*tʰɯɡ
直	*dɯɡ
犆	*dɯɡ
殖	*djɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhí (zhi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhí
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíh
    • Wade–Giles: chih²
    • Yale: jŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zik⁶
    • Yale: jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhiH, dzyik

Rime
Character	埴	埴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昌志切	常職切
Baxter	tsyhiH	dzyik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨH/	/d͡ʑɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰɨH/	/d͡ʑɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰieH/	/d͡ʑiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨH/	/d͡ʑik̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiəH/	/ʑiək̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭəH/	/ʑĭək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰiH/	/ʑi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chì	shí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci3	sik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjɯɡs/, /*djɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	埴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhí
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyik ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ək/
English	clay
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	埴	埴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17264	17274
Phonetic component	直	直
Rime group	代	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	熾	寔
Old Chinese	/*tʰjɯɡs/	/*djɯɡ/

Definitions

埴

1. (literary) soil with high clay content
2. (literary) clay; pottery clay
3. (literary) soil; earth

Derived terms

• 冥行擿埴
• 埏埴
• 埴固
• 埴輪／埴轮 (zhílún)
• 壚埴／垆埴
• 擿埴索塗／擿埴索涂
• 斥埴

 

Japanese

Kanji

埴

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. soil with high clay content

Readings

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)
• Kun: はに (hani, 埴)

Korean

Hanja

埴 • (sik,chi) (hangeul 식,치, revised sik, chi, McCune–Reischauer sik, ch'i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

埴: Hán Nôm readings: thực

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References

• Nom Foundation