啄

啄	U+5544, 啄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5544

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Translingual

Han character

啄 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8 in Chinese, 口+7 in Japanese, 11 strokes in Chinese, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 口一尸人 (RMSO), four-corner 6103₂, composition ⿰口豖)

to peck
(Cantonese) to slander

References

KangXi: page 194, character 30

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3801

Dae Jaweon: page 415, character 7

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 639, character 1

Unihan data for U+5544

Chinese

trad.		啄
simp. ^#		啄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
冢	*toŋʔ
塚	*toŋʔ
涿	*rtoːɡ
琢	*rtoːɡ
啄	rtoːɡ, toːɡ
諑	*rtoːɡ
剢	*toːɡ
瘃	*toɡ
豖	*tʰoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rtoːɡ, *toːɡ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 豖 (OC *tʰoɡ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)
(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ
(Chengdu, SP): zua²
Cantonese (Jyutping): doek³, doeng¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tuk
Min Nan (POJ): tok / teh / terh

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
  - Wade–Giles: cho²
  - Yale: jwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
  - Palladius: чжо (čžo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɔ³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: zua²
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zua
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sua²¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: doek³, doeng¹
  - Yale: deuk, dēung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: doek⁸, doeng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: dêg³, dêng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tœːk̚³/, /tœːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tuk
  - Hakka Romanization System: dug`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: dug⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /tuk̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tok
  - Tâi-lô: tok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dog
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Yilan, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: teh
  - Tâi-lô: teh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: deq
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /teʔ³²/
  - IPA (Yilan): /teʔ²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Kinmen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: terh
  - Tâi-lô: terh
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /təʔ⁵/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /təʔ³²/

Note:

tok - literary;
teh/terh - vernacular (may not be etymologically related).

Middle Chinese: /tuk̚/, /ʈˠʌk̚/

Rime
Character	啄	啄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	東 (3)	江 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	丁木切	竹角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuk̚/	/ʈˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tuk̚/	/ʈᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tuk̚/	/ȶɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/təwk̚/	/ʈaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/tuk̚/	/ȶɔk̚/
Wang Li	/tuk̚/	/ȶɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuk̚/	/ȶɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	du	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk¹	zok³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-tˤ<r>ok/
(Zhengzhang): /*rtoːɡ/, /*toːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	啄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ træwk ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-tˁ<r>ok/
English	to peck
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	啄	啄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1620	1622
Phonetic component	豖	豖
Rime group	屋	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	斲	𣫔
Old Chinese	/*rtoːɡ/	/*toːɡ/

Definitions

啄

to peck (to strike with the beak or bill)

Compounds

啄啄
啄食
阿啄仔 (a-tok-á)
一飲一啄／一饮一啄

剝剝啄啄／剥剥啄啄
剝啄／剥啄 (bōzhuó)
啄木鳥／啄木鸟 (zhuómùniǎo)

啄針兒／啄针儿
彫啄／雕啄
燕啄皇孫／燕啄皇孙

References

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

Japanese

Shinjitai	啄
Kyūjitai [1]	啄󠄁 啄+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	啄󠄅 啄+`󠄅`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

啄

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

to peck at

Readings

Go-on: たく (taku); つく (tsuku)
Kan-on: たく (taku); とく (toku)
Kun: ついばむ (tsuibamu, 啄む); つつく (tsutsuku, 啄く)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
啄
たく Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

Middle Chinese 啄 (MC tuk̚, ʈˠʌk̚).

Pronunciation

On’yomi

(Tokyo) たく [táꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
IPA^(key): [ta̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

啄(たく) • (taku)

the seventh of the Eight Principles of Yong

Hypernyms

永字八法(えいじはっぽう) (eiji happō, “the Eight Principles of Yong”)

Coordinate terms

側(そく) (soku, “the first of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
勒(ろく) (roku, “the second of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
努(ど) (do, “the third of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
趯(てき) (teki, “the fourth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
策(さく) (saku, “the fifth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
掠(りゃく) (ryaku, “the sixth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)
磔(たく) (taku, “the eighth of the Eight Principles of Yong”)

References

“啄”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

啄 (eum 탁 (tak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

啄: Hán Nôm readings: trác, trốc, chác

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[1] “啄”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

[DJR-2] 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN