冊

See also: 册 and 𠕁

冊	U+518A, 冊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518A

← 冉
[U+5189]

CJK Unified Ideographs

冋 →
[U+518B]

Translingual

Han character

冊 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT) or X月廿 (XBT), four-corner 7744₀, composition ⿻冂卄 or ⿻𦉫一)

Shuowen Jiezi radical №44

Derived characters

𭇒, 姍, 柵, 𣧱, 𦙱, 𪑃, 刪, 𮟰, 𠂨, 𣫳, 𣌧
珊, 粣, 跚, 銏, 笧 (For all regions except mainland China and Vietnamese Nom characters which contain 册 instead. Exception: Korean 跚 contains 册) - See Han unification

Related characters

册 (Variant form used in simplified Chinese and Vietnamese Nom)

References

KangXi: page 129, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1515
Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 99, character 5
Unihan data for U+518A

Chinese

trad.		冊
simp.		册
alternative forms		𠕁

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冊

Shang

Western Zhou

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Oracle bone script

Bronze inscriptions

Small seal script

**Oracle bone script**
j04541	j04542	j04543	j04544	j04545	j04546	j04547	j04548
j04549	j04550

**Bronze inscriptions**
b02679	b02680	b02681	b02682	b02683	b02684	b02685	b02686
b02687	b02688	b02689	b02690	b02691	b02692	b02693	b02694
b02695	b02696	b02697	b02698	b02699	b02700	b02701	b02702
b02703	b02704	b02705	b02706	b02707	b02708	b02709	b02710
b02711	b02712	b02713	b02714	b02715	b02716	b02717	b02718
b02719	b02720	b02721	b02722	b02723	b02724	b02725	b02726
b02727	b02728	b02729	b02730	b02731	b02732	b02733	b02734

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L38181	L38182	L38183	L27838	L27839	L27841	L27842	L27843
L27844	L27845	L27846	L27847	L27848	L27849	L27850	L27851

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
栅	sʰraːɡ, sʰreːɡ, *sraːns
冊	*sʰreːɡ
笧	*sʰreːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – bamboo slips strung together.

冊: bamboo slips strung together

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cè (ce⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄘㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caak³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhak
(Meixian, Guangdong): cag⁵
Min Dong (BUC): cháik / cháh
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chheh / chheeh / seh / chhek / chhiak
(Teochew, Peng'im): cêh⁴
Wu (Wiktionary): tshaq (T4)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cè
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cè
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻê⁴
  - Yale: tsè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tseh
  - Palladius: цэ (cɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: caak³
  - Yale: chaak
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaak⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: cag³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːk̚³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhak
  - Hakka Romanization System: cag`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cag⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰak̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: cag⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰak̚¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cháik / cháh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaiʔ²⁴/, /t͡sʰɑʔ²⁴/

Note:

cháik - literary;
cháh - vernacular.

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheh
  - Tâi-lô: tsheh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zheq
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰeʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /t͡sʰeʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Penang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheeh
  - Tâi-lô: tsheeh
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɛʔ³²/
  - IPA (Penang): /t͡sʰɛʔ³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangpu)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seh
  - Tâi-lô: seh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seq
  - IPA (Zhangpu): /seʔ³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
  - Tâi-lô: tshik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zheg
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiak
  - Tâi-lô: tshiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiak̚⁵/

Note:

chheh/chheeh - vernacular;
chhek/chhiak - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cêh⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsheh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰeʔ²/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: tshaq (T4)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰa̱ʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚/

Rime
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	耕 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	楚革切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰɛk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	che
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cak¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek/
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰreːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ](ˁ)rek/
English	tablet, records
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	冊
Reading #	1/1
No.	1167
Phonetic component	册
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	策
Old Chinese	/*sʰreːɡ/

Definitions

冊

(literary or Min Nan) book
volume
imperial edict
to grant in an imperial edict
冊立／册立 ― cèlì ― to hold a coronation ceremony
Classifier for books.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 書 (“book”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		書
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		書, 書本 collective, 書籍 collective, 書冊
Mandarin	Beijing	書
	Taiwan	書
	Yantai (Muping)	書
	Jinan	書
	Luoyang	書
	Wanrong	書
	Xi'an	書
	Yinchuan	書
	Lanzhou	書
	Xining	書
	Ürümqi	書
	Wuhan	書
	Chengdu	書, 書些 collective
	Guiyang	書
	Guilin	書
	Liuzhou	書
	Xuzhou	書
	Yangzhou	書, 冊子 euphemistic
	Nanjing	書
	Hefei	書
	Malaysia	書
	Singapore	書
	Dagudi (Maliba)	書
	Reshuitang (Longling)	書
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	書
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	書
Cantonese	Guangzhou	書
	Hong Kong	書
	Macau	書
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	書
	Taishan	書
	Taishan (Guanghai)	書
	Dongguan	書
	Yangjiang	書
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	書
	Hepu (Shatian)	書
	Beihai	書
	Beihai (Nankang)	書
	Beihai (Yingpan)	書
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	書
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	書
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	書
	Danzhou	書
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	書
	Singapore (Guangfu)	書
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	書
	Móng Cái	書
	Mandalay (Taishan)	書
Gan	Nanchang	書
	Lichuan	書
	Pingxiang	書
Hakka	Meixian	書
	Yudu	書
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	書
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	書
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	書
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	書
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	書
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	書
Huizhou	Jixi	書
Jin	Taiyuan	書
	Xinzhou	書
	Liangcheng	書
Min Bei	Jian'ou	書
	Songxi	書
	Jianyang	書
Min Dong	Fuzhou	書
	Changle	書
	Lianjiang	書
	Fuqing	書
	Yongtai	書
	Minqing	書
	Gutian	書
	Pingnan	書
	Luoyuan	書
	Fu'an	書
	Ningde	書
	Xiapu	書
	Zherong	書
	Shouning	書
	Zhouning	書
	Fuding	書冊, 書
Min Nan	Xiamen	冊, 書冊
	Quanzhou	冊, 書, 書冊
	Jinjiang	冊
	Yongchun	冊, 書
	Zhangzhou	冊
	Zhangpu	冊
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	書
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	書
	Tainan	冊
	Tainan (Anping)	冊
	Penghu (Xiyu)	書
	Penang (Hokkien)	冊
	Singapore (Hokkien)	冊
	Manila (Hokkien)	冊
	Medan (Hokkien)	冊
	Longyan	書冊
	Zhangping	冊
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	冊
	Datian	書
	Chaozhou	書
	Shantou	書, 書冊
	Jieyang	書
	Haifeng	冊
	Bangkok (Teochew)	書
	Chiang Mai (Teochew)	書
	Hat Yai (Teochew)	書
	Singapore (Teochew)	書, 冊
	Pontianak (Teochew)	書
	Leizhou	冊
	Wenchang	冊
	Haikou	冊
	Singapore (Hainanese)	冊
Puxian Min	Putian	冊
	Putian (Donghai)	冊
	Putian (Jiangkou)	冊
	Putian (Nanri)	冊
	Xianyou	冊
	Xianyou (Fengting)	冊
	Xianyou (Youyang)	冊
Min Zhong	Yong'an	書
Min Zhong	Shaxian	書
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	書
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	書
Wu	Shanghai	書
	Shanghai (Chongming)	書
	Suzhou	書
	Danyang	書
	Hangzhou	書
	Ningbo	書
	Wenzhou	書
	Jinhua	書
Xiang	Changsha	書
	Xiangxiang	書
	Loudi	書
	Shuangfeng	書

Compounds

丁口冊／丁口册
人手一冊／人手一册
兔園冊／兔园册
冊命／册命
冊子／册子 (cèzi)
冊封／册封 (cèfēng)
冊府／册府
冊府元龜／册府元龟
冊書／册书
冊正／册正
冊立／册立 (cèlì)
冊籍／册籍
冊葉／册叶
冊頁／册页 (cèyè)
分冊／分册 (fēncè)
列冊／列册
副冊／副册
參考冊／参考册 (chham-khó-chheh) (Min Nan)

古冊／古册 (kó͘-chheh) (Min Nan)
史冊／史册 (shǐcè)
名冊／名册 (míngcè)
哀冊／哀册
四柱冊／四柱册
小冊子／小册子 (xiǎocèzi)
尪仔冊／尪仔册 (ang-á-chheh) (Min Nan)
帳冊／帐册
底冊／底册
手冊／手册 (shǒucè)
捐冊／捐册
教冊／教册 (kà-chheh) (Min Nan)
方冊／方册 (fāngcè)
旅遊手冊／旅游手册
書冊／书册 (shūcè)
樣冊子／样册子
檔冊／档册
清冊／清册

照冊／照册 (Zhàocè)
留言冊／留言册
畫冊／画册 (huàcè)
符冊／符册 (fúcè)
簡冊／简册 (jiǎncè)
簿冊／簿册 (bùcè)
紀念冊／纪念册 (jìniàncè)
羊冊／羊册 (Yángcè)
花名冊／花名册 (huāmíngcè)
註冊／注册 (zhùcè)
註冊商標／注册商标 (zhùcè shāngbiāo)
讀冊／读册 (tha̍k-chheh) (Min Nan)
長冊／长册
高文典冊／高文典册
高文大冊／高文大册
魚鱗圖冊／鱼鳞图册
黃冊／黄册
點名冊／点名册

Japanese

Kanji

冊

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kan-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
Kan’yō-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
Kun: ふみ (fumi, 冊)

Counter

冊(さつ) • (-satsu)

books

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 冊 (MC t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
Text	*Gloss (hun)*	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰɛk̚] ~ [t͡ɕʰe̞k̚]
Phonetic hangul: [책/첵]

Hanja

Wikisource冊 (eumhun 책 책 (chaek chaek))

Hanja form^? of 책 (“book”).

Compounds

책방 (冊房, chaekbang)
책상 (冊床, chaeksang)
책자 (冊子, chaekja)
서책 (書冊, seochaek)
공책 (空冊, gongchaek)
책력 (冊曆, chaengnyeok)
책봉 (冊封, chaekbong)
책장 (冊欌, chaekjang)
별책 (別冊, byeolchaek)
분책 (分冊, bunchaek)
책명 (冊名, chaengmyeong)
책제 (冊題, chaekje)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

冊: Hán Nôm readings: sách

chữ Hán form of sách (“book”).

冊

Translingual

Han character

Derived characters

Related characters

References

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

Synonyms

See also

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

Readings

Counter

Korean

Etymology

Pronunciation

Hanja

Compounds

References

Vietnamese

Han character