掖

掖	U+6396, 掖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6396

← 掕
[U+6395]

CJK Unified Ideographs

掗 →
[U+6397]

Translingual

Han character

掖 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜人大 (QYOK), four-corner 5004₇, composition ⿰扌夜)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 437, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12262
Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1903, character 5
Unihan data for U+6396

Chinese

trad.		掖
simp. ^#		掖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
夜	*laːɡs
鵺	*laːɡs
迹	*ʔsleːɡ
跡	*ʔsleːɡ
亦	*laːɡ
弈	*laːɡ
奕	*laːɡ
帟	*laːɡ
腋	*laːɡ
掖	*laːɡ
焲	*laːɡ
液	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *laːɡ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 夜 (OC *laːɡs).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yē, yè, yì (ye¹, ye⁴, yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄝ, ㄧㄝˋ, ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶ / jat⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ia̍k / e̍k / iǎ / iā

(Teochew, Peng'im): êg⁸
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁸yiq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yē
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ye
  - Wade–Giles: yeh¹
  - Yale: yē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ie
  - Palladius: е (je)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yè
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yè
  - Wade–Giles: yeh⁴
  - Yale: yè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeh
  - Palladius: е (je)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yì
  - Wade–Giles: i⁴
  - Yale: yì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jik⁶ / jat⁶
  - Yale: yihk / yaht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹ / jat⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶ / yed⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/, /jɐt̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iak
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
  - Tâi-lô: i̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ek
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /iɪk̚⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iǎ
  - Tâi-lô: iǎ
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ia²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iā
  - Tâi-lô: iā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ia
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ia³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ia²²/

Note:

ia̍k/e̍k - literary;
iǎ/iā - vernacular (俗).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: êg⁸
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: e̍k
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ek̚⁴/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Songjiang, Suzhou, Shaoxing)
  - Wugniu: ⁸yiq
  - MiniDict: yih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /ɦiɪʔ²²/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /ɦiɪʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /ɦieʔ²³/

Middle Chinese: yek

Rime
Character	掖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊益切
Baxter	yek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭɛk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)Ak/

(Zhengzhang): /*laːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	掖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yè
Middle Chinese	‹ yek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)Ak/
English	armpit
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	掖
Reading #	1/1
No.	15001
Phonetic component	亦
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繹
Old Chinese	/*laːɡ/

Definitions

掖

to support with the arms
to tuck
to conceal; to hide
(Hokkien) to scatter
(Hokkien) to sprinkle
(obsolete) alternative form of 腋 (yè, “armpit”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) side
掖門／掖门 ― yēmén ― side door of a palace

掖庭 ― yētíng ― side palace apartment for the residence of imperial concubines

Compounds

宮掖 / 宫掖 (gōngyè)
張掖 / 张掖
扶掖 (fúyè)
掖垣
掖庭 (yètíng)
掖掖蓋蓋 / 掖掖盖盖
掖省
掖門 / 掖门 (yèmén)
提掖
獎掖 / 奖掖
禁掖
藏掖 (cángyē)
誘掖 / 诱掖
誘掖後進 / 诱掖后进
軒掖 / 轩掖
逢掖
逢掖之士
靴掖
章甫縫掖 / 章甫缝掖

Japanese

Kanji

掖

(Hyōgai kanji)

side (of body); to carry under arm

Readings

Kan-on: えき (eki)
Kun: わきばさむ (wakibasamu)、たすける (tasukeru)、わき (waki)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
掖
わき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

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

【脇わき】S

[noun] (anatomy) the armpit, the underarm

[noun] the underarm area of clothing

[noun] a tangent, such as in a conversation

[noun] something in a secondary and supporting role:

[noun] in ancient Japan, an assistant to the 春宮坊 (Tōgūbō, rank title; responsible for administering eastern provinces)

[noun] in the medieval period, old name for 関脇 (sekiwake, sumō rank)

[noun] in 能楽 (nōgaku, “Noh theatre”), the supporting role played alongside the main protagonist

[noun] in 浄瑠璃 (jōruri, recitation accompanying a puppet show), the supporting reciter

[noun] in 邦楽 (hōgaku, traditional Japanese music), the accompaniment

[noun] something of lesser importance, something on the back burner (often used in constructions such as 脇にする (waki ni suru, “to put off to the side”), 脇になる (waki ni naru, “to become off to the side”).)

[noun] short for 脇(わき)能(のう) (wakinō): a type of Noh theatre, performed first in a series of performances, wherein a god or spirit prays for a peaceful reign for the emperor

[noun] short for 脇(わき)句(く) (wakiku): the two seven-syllable lines of poetry following the 発句 (hokku, the first three lines of a renga, of 17 syllables and later serving as the haiku form)

[noun] short for 脇(わき)百(びゃく)姓(しょう) (waki-byakushō): lower-ranking commoners in the Edo period and earlier

[noun] somewhere, someone, or something else

Alternative spelling
腋

(This term, 掖, is an alternative spelling (less common) of the above term.)

References

“^▲掖”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

掖 (eum 액 (aek))

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Vietnamese

Han character

掖: Hán Nôm readings: dịch

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References

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