叕

叕	U+53D5, 叕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D5

Translingual

Han character

叕 (Kangxi radical 29, 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水水水水 (EEEE), four-corner 7744₇, composition ⿰㕛㕛 or ⿱双双)

Shuowen Jiezi radical №505

Derived characters

𬾧, 啜, 㙍, 娺, 𭛶, 惙, 掇, 涰, 𨺝, 𣇽, 腏, 棳, 逫, 畷, 𭿁, 䄌, 𥟒, 𬖤, 綴(缀), 䍳, 蝃, 裰, 諁, 䝌, 䞵, 䟾, 輟(辍), 醊, 錣(𮣵), 䮕, 𩩟, 餟(𬳂), 𩸯, 剟, 敠, 敪, 欼, 毲, 䫎, 鵽, 𠖎, 𡨤, 𬝉, 罬, 窡, 𩋁, 䦤, 𡌭, 歠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 166, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3157
Dae Jaweon: page 377, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 397, character 4
Unihan data for U+53D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		叕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 叕
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
蝃	tɯːds, tjod
欼	*sʰrɯʔ
綴	tods, tod
醊	tods, tod
畷	tods, tod
啜	tods, djods, tod, tʰjod, *djod
餟	tods, tod
腏	tods, toːd, *tod
錣	tods, rtoːd
輟	tods, tod
娺	tul, rtoːd
窡	rtoːd, rtoːd
鵽	rtoːd, rtoːd, *toːd
掇	toːd, tod
剟	toːd, tod
裰	*toːd
敠	toːd, sʰlod
惙	*tod
罬	tod, ktod
叕	*tod
歠	*tʰjod
逫	*tud

Pictogram (象形) , quadruplication of 又.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
  - Wade–Giles: cho²
  - Yale: jwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
  - Palladius: чжо (čžo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zyut³
  - Yale: jyut
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: jud³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːt̚³/

Middle Chinese: trjwet

Rime
Character	叕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	薛 (84)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	陟劣切
Baxter	trjwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷᵚiet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈwiat̚/
Li Rong	/ȶjuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyut³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*trot-s/, /*trot/

(Zhengzhang): /*tod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	叕	叕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ trjwej^H ›	‹ trjwet ›
Old Chinese	/*trot-s/	/*trot/
English	stitch (n.?)	stitch
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	叕
Reading #	1/1
No.	17812
Phonetic component	叕
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	輟
Old Chinese	/*tod/
Notes	綴初文

Definitions

叕

to connect
Synonym: 綴／缀

Etymology 2

Reinterpreted as four 又 (yòu, “again”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yòu, yòuyòuyòuyòu (you⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˋ, ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yòu
  - Wade–Giles: yu⁴
  - Yale: yòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
  - Palladius: ю (ju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yòuyòuyòuyòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yòuyòuyòuyòu
  - Wade–Giles: yu⁴-yu⁴-yu⁴-yu⁴
  - Yale: yòu-yòu-yòu-yòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yowyowyowyow
  - Palladius: юююю (jujujuju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ joʊ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

叕

(Internet slang, emphatic) again and again; repeatedly

Compounds

又双叒叕

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C00977

Japanese

Kanji

叕

(Hyōgai kanji)

to concatenate
to compose
covered in a gauze-like net

Readings

Go-on: てち (techi)
Kan-on: てつ (tetsu)、げつ (getsu)
Kun: つづる (tsuzuru)、すみやか (sumiyaka)

Korean

Hanja

叕 (eum 철 (cheol))

(archaic) hanja form^? of 철 (“to put together in a file”)