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檄	U+6A84, 檄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A84

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CJK Unified Ideographs

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Translingual

Han character

檄 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木竹尸大 (DHSK), four-corner 4894₀, composition ⿰木敫)

to dispatch, order, call to arms
urgency

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 556, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15639
Dae Jaweon: page 945, character 27
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1302, character 14
Unihan data for U+6A84

Chinese

simp. and trad.		檄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
礉	kʰreːw, kʰreːwɢs
邀	qlew, kleːw
憿	*kleːw
徼	kleːw, kleːwɢs
儌	kleːwʔ, kleːwʔ
璬	*kleːwʔ
皦	*kleːwʔ
繳	kleːwʔ, kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ
敫	kleːwɢs, ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ
譥	*kleːwɢs
激	kleːwɢs, kleːwɢ
噭	*kleːwɢs
獥	kleːwɢs, kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
鸄	kleːwɢs, kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
墽	*kʰleːw
竅	*kʰleːwɢs
覈	ɡleːd, ɡreːɡ
燩	kʰreːwɢ, kʰleːwɢ
檄	*ɡleːwɢ
薂	*ɡleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡleːwɢ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 敫 (OC *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xí (xi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hat⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hih⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): he̍k

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xí
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sí
  - Wade–Giles: hsi²
  - Yale: syí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hat⁶
  - Yale: haht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: he̍k
  - Tâi-lô: hi̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hek
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɪk̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: hek

Rime
Character	檄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡狄切
Baxter	hek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣek̚/
Wang Li	/ɣiek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡleːwɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	檄
Reading #	1/1
No.	6411
Phonetic component	敫
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡleːwɢ/

Definitions

檄

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Compounds

傳檄 / 传檄 (chuánxí)
傳檄而定 / 传檄而定
千里移檄
奉檄
捧檄
檄召
檄文 (xíwén)
檄書 / 檄书
檄糴 / 檄籴
毛義捧檄 / 毛义捧檄
移檄 (yíxí)
羽檄
羽檄交馳 / 羽檄交驰
羽檄飛馳 / 羽檄飞驰
草檄
飛書走檄 / 飞书走檄
飛書馳檄 / 飞书驰檄
馬頭草檄 / 马头草檄
馳檄 / 驰檄

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “檄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

Japanese

Kanji

檄

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ぎゃく (gyaku)
Kan-on: けき (keki)
Kan’yō-on: げき (geki)
Kun: ふれぶみ (furebumi, 檄)

Compounds

檄文(げきぶん) (gekibun): written appeal, declaration

Etymology

Kanji in this term
檄
げき Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

檄(げき) • (geki)

written appeal, circular, manifesto

Synonyms

檄文(げきぶん) (gekibun)

Derived terms

檄(げき)を飛(と)ばす (geki o tobasu): issue a manifesto

Korean

Hanja

檄 (eum 격 (gyeok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

檄: Hán Nôm readings: hịch

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