碩

See also: 硕

碩	U+78A9, 碩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78A9

← 碨
[U+78A8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

碪 →
[U+78AA]

Translingual

Han character

碩 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口一月金 (MRMBC), four-corner 1168₆, composition ⿰石頁)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 833, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24338
Dae Jaweon: page 1250, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2442, character 7
Unihan data for U+78A9

Chinese

trad.		碩
simp.		硕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 碩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
柘	*tjaɡs
妬	*taːɡs
蠹	*taːɡs
沰	taːɡ, tʰaːɡ
拓	tʰaːɡ, tjaɡ
橐	*tʰaːɡ
袥	*tʰaːɡ
驝	tʰaːɡ, raːɡ
斫	*tjaɡ
磭	ŋrɯnʔ, ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
磔	*rtaːɡ
跖	*tjaɡ
石	*djaɡ
碩	*djaɡ
祏	*djaɡ
鉐	*djaɡ
鼫	*djaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *djaɡ): phonetic 石 (OC *djaɡ) + semantic 頁.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuò, shí (shuo⁴, shi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ, ㄕˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sek⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sa̍k

(Hailu, HRS): shag^ˋ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): se̍k / sia̍k / si̍t

(Teochew, Peng'im): sêg⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuò
  - Wade–Giles: shuo⁴
  - Yale: shwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuoh
  - Palladius: шо (šo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shí
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shíh
  - Wade–Giles: shih²
  - Yale: shŕ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
  - Palladius: ши (ši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sek⁶
  - Yale: sehk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sek⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ség⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛːk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sa̍k
  - Hakka Romanization System: sag
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sag⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /sak̚⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: shag^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /ʃak²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
  - Tâi-lô: si̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: sia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t
  - Tâi-lô: si̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sit
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚²⁴/

Note:

sia̍k/se̍k - literary;
si̍t - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: sêg⁴
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sek
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /sek̚²/

Middle Chinese: dzyek

Rime
Character	碩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常隻切
Baxter	dzyek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajk̚/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]Ak/

(Zhengzhang): /*djaɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	碩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyek ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]Ak/
English	great, stately
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	碩
Reading #	1/1
No.	11471
Phonetic component	石
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	石
Old Chinese	/*djaɡ/

Definitions

碩

large; big
great; eminent
beautiful; fine
firm; stable
short for 碩士／硕士 (shuòshì, “master's degree”)
a surname

Compounds

健碩 / 健硕 (jiànshuò)
壯碩 / 壮硕
宏儒碩學 / 宏儒硕学
宏碩 / 宏硕
巨碩 / 巨硕
德碩年高 / 德硕年高
碩交 / 硕交
碩人 / 硕人 (shuòrén)
碩儒 / 硕儒
碩士 / 硕士 (shuòshì)
碩大 / 硕大 (shuòdà)
碩大無朋 / 硕大无朋 (shuòdàwúpéng)
碩學通儒 / 硕学通儒
碩彥 / 硕彦
碩彥名儒 / 硕彦名儒
碩望 / 硕望
碩果 / 硕果 (shuòguǒ)
碩果僅存 / 硕果仅存 (shuòguǒjǐncún)
碩螳 / 硕螳 (shuòtáng)
碩言 / 硕言
碩量 / 硕量
碩鼠 / 硕鼠
耆儒碩德 / 耆儒硕德
耆儒碩望 / 耆儒硕望
耆儒碩老 / 耆儒硕老
耆年碩德 / 耆年硕德
耆碩 / 耆硕
肥碩 / 肥硕 (féishí)
豐碩 / 丰硕 (fēngshuò)
高才碩學 / 高才硕学

References

“碩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “硕”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 216.

Japanese

Kanji

碩

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

large
great
eminent

Readings

Go-on: じゃく (jaku)
Kan-on: せき (seki)
Kun: おおきい (ōkī, 碩きい)

Korean

Hanja

碩 • (seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune–Reischauer sŏk, Yale sek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碩 (thạc, thượt)