息
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Han character
息 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP), four-corner 26330, composition ⿱自心)
References
- KangXi: page 385, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10601
- Dae Jaweon: page 717, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2291, character 4
- Unihan data for U+606F
Chinese
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 自 (“nose”) + 心 (“heart”) – to breathe (life) through one’s nose. Note that 自 originally meant “nose” and was later borrowed for “self”.
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sak (“breath; life; to breathe”). Cognate with Jingpho sa' (“to breathe”), Burmese အသက် (a.sak).
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Definitions
息
Compounds
Derived terms from 息
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Pronunciation
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 曾孫 (“great-grandson; great-grandchild”) [map]
Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see 熄 (“to extinguish; to go out; to turn off; to switch off”). (This character, 息, is the second-round simplified form of 熄.) |
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Japanese
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 息 (MC sɨk̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 식〮 (sík) (Yale: sik) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
Compounds
Okinawan
Derived terms
- 一息 (chuīchi, “a single breath, puff; a pause; a small effort”)
Pai-lang
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“tree, wood”). Compare Burmese သစ် (sac, “wood, timber”).
Vietnamese
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