隻

隻 U+96BB, 隻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96BB ← 隺 [U+96BA] CJK Unified Ideographs 隼 → [U+96BC]

隻 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE) or 難人土水 (XOGE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿱隹又)

• 愯, 㨦, 㸕, 䑾, 謢, 䨇, 蒦, 篗, 䨥

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1364, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4090, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96BB

trad.		隻
simp.		只*

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 隹 (“short-tailed bird”) + 又 (“hand”).

To hold one bird is 隻; to hold two birds is 雙.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek (“one”).

隻

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) one bird
2. single

   隻字不提／只字不提  ―  zhīzìbùtí  ―  to not say a single word

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, mathematics) odd
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alone
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unique
6. Classifier for one of a pair. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   Antonyms: 雙 / 双 (shuāng) (pair), 對 / 对 (duì) (pair), 副 (fù) (pair/set)

   Alternative form: 只

   一隻鞋，一雙鞋／一只鞋，一双鞋  ―  yī zhī xié, yī shuāng xié  ―  a shoe, a pair of shoes

7. Classifier for birds and certain animals (especially limbed or small, grabbable by hand).

   Coordinate terms: 頭 / 头 (tóu) (for large animals), 條 / 条 (tiáo) (for long/thin animals)

   一隻貓／一只猫  ―  yī zhī māo  ―  a cat

   兩隻豬／两只猪 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ zek³ zyu¹ [Jyutping]  ―  two pigs

   • 1617, 張應俞, “明騙販豬”, in 騙經‎^[1]:

     一日，販小豬四隻，往崇安，大安去賣

     Yī rì, fàn xiǎo zhū sì zhǐ, wǎng chóng ān, dà'ān qù mài.

     One day, [Deng Zhaobao] bought four piglets and went to Chong'an and Da'an to sell them.

   • 2018, “離水的魚”‎^[2]performed by 蔡秋鳳 [Kerris Tsai]:

     我親像一隻離水的魚 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     我亲像一只离水的鱼 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     góa chhin-chhiūⁿ chi̍t chiah lī chúi ê hî [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     I am like a fish away from water

8. Classifier for symmetrical body parts, limbs, hands, feet.

   昆蟲有六隻腳。／昆虫有六只脚。  ―  Kūnchóng yǒu liù zhī jiǎo.  ―  Insects have six legs.

   十隻手指／十只手指  ―  shí zhī shǒuzhǐ  ―  ten fingers

   四隻桌腳／四只桌脚  ―  sì zhī zhuō jiǎo  ―  four table feet

9. Classifier for certain vessels, containers, utensils and objects worn on or grabbable by hand.

   Alternative form: 只

   一隻戒指／一只戒指  ―  yī zhī jièzhǐ  ―  one ring

   一隻手錶／一只手表  ―  yī zhī shǒubiǎo  ―  one wristwatch

   一隻皮箱／一只皮箱  ―  yī zhī píxiāng  ―  one leather suitcase

   兩隻花瓶／两只花瓶  ―  liǎng zhī huāpíng  ―  two flower vases

   一隻氣球／一只气球  ―  yī zhī qìqiú  ―  one air balloon

10. Classifier for boats.

    Alternative form: 只

    四隻船／四只船  ―  sì zhī chuán  ―  four boats

11. Classifier for songs.
12. (dialectal, humorous or derogatory) Classifier for people.
13. (Cantonese) Classifier for kinds or varieties.

    呢隻雪糕太甜喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    呢只雪糕太甜喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]

    ni¹ zek³ syut³ gou¹ taai³ tim⁴ laa³. [Jyutping]

    This sort of ice cream is too sweet.

14. (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) Classifier for months of prison sentence.

    Coordinate term: 轆 / 辘

For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 獲 (“to catch; to obtain; to get; to receive; to win; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 獲).

For pronunciation and definitions of 隻 – see 雙 (“two; double; twin; even; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 雙).

• “隻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “只”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 272.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu, 隻つ)

隻(せき) • (-seki) 

1. boats or ships

   一(いっ)隻(せき)

   isseki

   one ship

2. one of two, one of a pair
3. birds, fish, or arrows

隻 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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隻: Hán Nôm readings: chiếc, chếch, chệch, chích, xếch, xệch, chỉ

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