籥

籥	U+7C65, 籥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C65

← 籤
[U+7C64]

CJK Unified Ideographs

籦 →
[U+7C66]

Translingual

Han character

籥 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹人一月 (HOMB), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱𥫗龠)

Derived characters

𤅰, 𨈋, 𪛒, 𥤖, 𪛔, 𥸤, 籲

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 905, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26771
Dae Jaweon: page 1330, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3032, character 12
Unihan data for U+7C65

Chinese

trad.		籥
simp. ^#		籥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
讑	*lowɢs
籲	*los
爚	hljowɢ, lowɢ
禴	*lowɢ
蘥	*lowɢ
鑰	*lowɢ
瀹	*lowɢ
龠	*lowɢ
籥	*lowɢ
鸙	*lowɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lowɢ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 龠 (OC *lowɢ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuè (yue⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): joek⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): io̍k

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yuè
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yuè
  - Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴
  - Yale: ywè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh
  - Palladius: юэ (jue)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: joek⁶
  - Yale: yeuhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: joek⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yêg⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːk̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
  - Tâi-lô: io̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iok
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔk̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: yak

Rime
Character	籥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以灼切
Baxter	yak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨak̚/
Li Rong	/iak̚/
Wang Li	/jĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joek⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*lewk/

(Zhengzhang): /*lowɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	籥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuè
Middle Chinese	‹ yak ›
Old Chinese	/*lewk/
English	flute; key; tube
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	籥
Reading #	1/1
No.	16351
Phonetic component	龠
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	藥
Old Chinese	/*lowɢ/

Definitions

籥

(archaic) an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute with three or six fingerholes, used in Confucian ritual music and dance
- 左手執籥、右手秉翟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  左手执籥、右手秉翟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Zuǒ shǒu zhí yào, yòu shǒu bǐng dí. [Pinyin]
  I grasp a flute with my left hand; I hold a pheasant's feather in my right hand.
(literary) lock and key
Synonym: 鎖鑰 / 锁钥 (suǒyuè)
(archaic) erasable bamboo strips used by children to practice writing

Compounds

橐籥
管籥

Synonyms

龠

References

“籥”, 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–
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03294

Japanese

Kanji

籥

(Hyōgai kanji)

three-holed flute

Readings

On (unclassified): やく (yaku)
Kun: ふえ (fue)

Korean

Hanja

籥 (eum 약 (yak))

hanja form^? of 약 (“an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute of Chinese origin with three fingerholes used today only in Confucian ritual music and dance in South Korea”)