社稷

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Chinese

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soil god millet god
trad. (社稷)
simp. #(社稷)
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (25) (13)
Final () (100) (134)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyaeX tsik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiaX/ /t͡sɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiaX/ /t͡sɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑiaX/ /t͡siek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑiaX/ /t͡sik̚/
Li
Rong
/ʑiaX/ /t͡siək̚/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭaX/ /t͡sĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯aX/ /t͡si̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shè ji
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
se6 zik1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shè
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyæX › ‹ tsik ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-tʰAʔ/ /*[ts]ək/
English sacrifice to the spirit of the soil millet (Setaria italica)

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 12497 1170
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦljaːʔ/ /*sklɯɡ/

Noun

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社稷

  1. (Classical, literally) gods of the soil and harvest (as worshipped by the aristocracy in ancient China)
  2. (historical, metonymically) altars for offering sacrifices to the gods of the soil and grains
  3. (Classical, metonymically) nation; country

Synonyms

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  • (nation):
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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (社稷):

Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
しゃ
Grade: 2
しょく
Hyōgai
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
社稷 (kyūjitai)
 社稷 on Japanese Wikipedia

Middle Chinese 社稷 (d͡ʑiaX t͡sɨk̚)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(しゃ)(しょく) (shashokuしやしよく (syasyoku)?

  1. (deity) Chinese deities of the soil and of grains, venerated as tutelary deities of the nation
  2. (figurative, literary) the nation
    Synonym: 国家 (kokka)

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
すめらおおもとお
Grade: 2 Hyōgai
jukujikun
Alternative spelling
社稷 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 社稷 – see the following entry: すめらおおもとお

(The following entry is uncreated: すめらおおもとお.)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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社稷 (sajik) (hangeul 사직)

  1. hanja form? of 사직 (gods of soil and grain)