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English definition single, one of pair, lone; measure word
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system zhi1
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system zek3
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system jek3
Japanese (Kana) セキ シャク ひとつ
Japanese (Hepburn) hitotsu
Sino-Japanese seki
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chek
Hangul 척:0N
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ chiếc
Simplified variants
Unicode radical / stroke count + 2
Unicode total stroke count 10
Cangjie OGE
Four corner code 2040.7
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 1
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 6, page 4090, character 10
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 1364, position 9
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 1867, position 26
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1260c
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 1436, row 3, position 3
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 518, character 20
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 756, character 2 page 85, character 4
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 52A
page 66, position 3
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 100
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 967
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 1374
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 175
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 197
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 4407
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 5028
PRC telegraph code 7156
Taiwan telegraph code 7156
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 38587 / 96BB


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