皙

皙	U+7699, 皙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7699

← 皘
[U+7698]

CJK Unified Ideographs

皚 →
[U+769A]

Translingual

Han character

皙 (Kangxi radical 106, 白+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木中竹日 (DLHA), four-corner 4260₂, composition ⿱析白)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 788, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22748
Dae Jaweon: page 1203, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2649, character 14
Unihan data for U+7699

Chinese

simp. and trad.		皙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
菥	se, seːɡ
蜤	*se
析	*seːɡ
皙	*seːɡ
蜥	*seːɡ
淅	*seːɡ
惁	*seːɡ
晰	*seːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sik¹
  - Yale: sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/

Middle Chinese: sek

Rime
Character	皙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先擊切
Baxter	sek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/sek̚/
Wang Li	/siek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*seːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	皙
Reading #	1/1
No.	13317
Phonetic component	析
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	錫
Old Chinese	/*seːɡ/

Definitions

皙

(literary, of skin) pale; white
白皙 ― báixī ― [literary] pale-skinned; having a white complexion
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) white
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of date

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “皙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 251.

Japanese

Kanji

皙

(Hyōgai kanji)

white

Readings

Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
Kan-on: せき (seki)
Kun: しろい (shiroi, 皙い)

Compounds

白皙 (はくせき, hakuseki)