隙

隙	U+9699, 隙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9699

Translingual

Alternative forms

In all regions except Taiwan, the middle right component is written as 日, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi Dictionary.
In Taiwan, the middle right component is written as 白 instead.
In all regions except South Korea, the top right component is written similar to 小 with a middle vertical stroke without ending hook (丨 instead of usual 亅)
In South Korea, the top right component is written as 小 with a middle vertical stroke that has an ending hook (亅).

Han character

隙 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+11 in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), 阜+10 in Chinese (mainland China, Hong Kong), Japanese and Korean, 14 strokes in Chinese in traditional Chinese, 12 strokes in mainland China, 13 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 弓中火日火 (NLFAF) or 弓中火竹火 (NLFHF), four-corner 7929₆, composition ⿰阝𡭴(GHJKV) or ⿰阝𡮂(T))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1359, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41792
Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 26
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4150, character 11
Unihan data for U+9699

Chinese

trad.		隙
simp. ^#		隙
2nd round simp.		⿰阝夕
alternative forms		䧍𡮱𧯈𧯊𨻈䧍𡮱𧯈𧯊𨻈𨻩𨻶隟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
虩	sqʰraːɡ, qʰraɡ
隙	*kʰraɡ

Etymology

Possibly related to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns, “space, gap”) (Wang, 1982).

Outside of Chinese, compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *kak (“to crack; to rend; to split”), Jingpho [script needed] (kaʔ³¹, “to crack”) (Sagart, 2017).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kwik¹ / gwik¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hid⁵
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kih⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khiah / khek / khiak

(Teochew, Peng'im): kiah⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sì
  - Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
  - Yale: syì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kwik¹ / gwik¹
  - Yale: kwīk / gwīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kwik⁷ / gwik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: kuig¹ / guig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɪk̚⁵/, /kʷɪk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: hid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /hit̚¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiʔ¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiah
  - Tâi-lô: khiah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qiaq
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰiaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiaʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khek
  - Tâi-lô: khik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qeg
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiak
  - Tâi-lô: khiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiak̚⁵/

Note:

khiah - vernacular;
khiak/khek - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: kiah⁴
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khiah
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiaʔ²/

Middle Chinese: khjaek

Rime
Character	隙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	陌 (115)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綺戟切
Baxter	khjaek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰiajk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰiɐk̚/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hik¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰrak/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰraɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xì
Middle Chinese	‹ khjæk ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰrak/
English	crack (n.)
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	隙
Reading #	1/1
No.	13441
Phonetic component	隙
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	隙
Old Chinese	/*kʰraɡ/
Notes	本象山隙縫透射日光，或省阜

Definitions

隙

Compounds

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “隙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

Japanese

Kanji

隙

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
Kan-on: けき (keki)
Kan’yō-on: げき (geki, Jōyō)
Kun: すき (suki, 隙, Jōyō)、ひま (hima, 隙)

Compounds

隙(すき)間(ま) (sukima): crevice

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隙
すき Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 隙 – see the following entry.

【すき】	[noun] gap; space [noun] (specifically) gap in defenses

(This term, 隙, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 隙 (MC khjaek). Recorded as Middle Korean 극〯 (kǔk) (Yale: kuk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

隙

Wikisource

隙 (eumhun 틈 극 (teum geuk))

hanja form^? of 극 (“crack; crevice; gap”)

Compounds

가극 (暇隙, gageuk)
간극 (間隙, gan'geuk)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

隙: Hán Việt readings: khích^[1]^[2]^[3]
隙: Nôm readings: khích^[1]^[2]

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References

[tdcndg-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Nguyễn (2014).

[tdcntd-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

[gdhn-3] Trần (2004).

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