乭

乭 U+4E6D, 乭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E6D ← 乬 [U+4E6C] CJK Unified Ideographs 乮 → [U+4E6E]

Translingual

Han character

乭 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+5, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 一口弓 (MRN), four-corner 1071₇, composition ⿱石乙)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 84, character 14
• Dae Jaweon: page 171, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 53, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		乭
alternative forms		石 𬼟 𭆁 𭆂

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Korean 乭 (dol, 돌).

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 石 (shí).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shí (shi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shí
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíh
    • Wade–Giles: shih²
    • Yale: shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɻ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sek⁶
    • Yale: sehk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚²/

Definitions

乭

1. Used in Korean names.

   李世乭  ―  Lǐ Shìshí  ―  Lee Sedol, a professional Go player in South Korea

Korean

Glyph origin

A Korean-coined Han character (국자 (國字, gukja)).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 石 (“stone, semantic reading 돌 (dol)”) + phonetic 乙 (을 (eul), “used as marker to represent the last consonant ㄹ (l)”).

Hanja

乭 (eumhun 음역자 돌 (eumyeokja dol))

1. hanja form^? of 돌 (“hanja used for transliteration, mainly used in personal names”)

   이세돌(李世乭) ― I Sedol ― Lee Sedol, a professional Go player in South Korea

   신돌석(申乭石) ― Sin Dolseok ― Shin Dol-seok, Korean general

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]