蜥

蜥 U+8725, 蜥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8725 ← 蜤 [U+8724] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜦 → [U+8726]

Translingual

Han character

蜥 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈木竹中 (LIDHL), four-corner 5212₁, composition ⿰虫析)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33157
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2859, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8725

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
菥	*se, *seːɡ
蜤	*se
析	*seːɡ
皙	*seːɡ
蜥	*seːɡ
淅	*seːɡ
惁	*seːɡ
晰	*seːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: sek

Rime
Character	蜥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先擊切
Baxter	sek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/sek̚/
Wang Li	/siek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*seːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜥
Reading #	1/1
No.	13318
Phonetic component	析
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	錫
Old Chinese	/*seːɡ/

Definitions

蜥

1. Only used in 蜥蜴 (xīyì); also used as its short form.

Compounds

• 島蜥 / 岛蜥 (dǎoxī)
• 巨蜥 (jùxī)
• 扁蜥 (biǎnxī)
• 蜥蜴 (xīyì)
• 鬣蜥 (lièxī)

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蜥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

蜥

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: せき (seki)
• Kun: とかげ (tokage, 蜥)

Compounds

• 蜥蜴(トカゲ) (tokage, “skink; lizard”)

Korean

Hanja

蜥 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜥: Hán Nôm readings: tích

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