席

席 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿中月 (ITLB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广⿱廿巾)

• 褯 蓆

• KangXi: page 332, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8926
• Dae Jaweon: page 638, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 741, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E2D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaːɡ) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 庶 (OC *hljaɡs)

Etymology unclear. Various theories have been proposed:

• Wang (1982) relates this to 藉 (OC *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ), 蒩 (OC *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa), 薦 (OC *ʔseːns).
• Schuessler (2007), reconstructing this word minimally as *s-lak, relates this word to 莽 (OC *mlaʔ, *mlaŋʔ, “grass”).
• Baxter and Sagart (2014) derive it from a root *tak (“to place”), with circumstantial noun prefix *s-, literally “place for putting things”.

席

1. seat
2. Alternative form of 蓆／席 (xí, “woven mat made of bamboo strips or grass”).
3. food of a banquet
4. Classifier for conversations.
5. Classifier for seats (members) in a meeting.
6. a surname

Others:

• → Vietnamese: tiệc

• “席”, 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–

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. seat
2. mat
3. location

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: むしろ (mushiro, 席)

• (Tokyo) せ​き [séꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [se̞kʲi]

席(せき) • (seki) 

1. seat
2. meeting place; venue
3. position; status

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰʌ̹k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [석]

Wikisource 席 (eumhun 자리 석 (jari seok))

1. Hanja form^? of 석 (“seat”).

席: Hán Nôm readings: tiệc, tịch

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