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See also: 测

Stroke order
12 strokes

測 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月金弓 (EBCN), four-corner 32100, composition ⿰氵則)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 635, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17780
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1674, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6E2C
trad. 測
simp. 测
Old Chinese
廁 *sʰrɯɡs, *sʰrɯɡ
則 *ʔsɯːɡ
賊 *zɯːɡ
鰂 *zɯːɡ
鱡 *zɯːɡ
蠈 *zɯːɡ
側 *ʔsrɯɡ
萴 *ʔsrɯɡ, *zrɯɡ
測 *sʰrɯɡ
惻 *sʰrɯɡ
崱 *zrɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰrɯɡ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 則 (OC *ʔsɯːɡ) — to measure the depth of water.

Note:

  • Quanzhou:
    • chhak - vernacular;
    • chhiak - literary.

Note:

  • Jiading:
    • 7tsheq - literary;
    • 7tshaq - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 測
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsrhik ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[tsʰ]rək/
English fathom (v.)

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 測
Reading # 1/1
No. 16602
Phonetic
component 		則
Rime
group 		職
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		測
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰrɯɡ/

測

  1. to fathom; to sound; to measure depth
  2. to measure; to gauge; to survey
  3. (literary or in compounds) to predict; to anticipate; to expect
  4. (literary or in compounds) to surmise; to speculate; to conjecture; to suppose
  5. (obsolete) deep
  6. (obsolete) clear
  7. (obsolete) a method of torture
  • (to surmise):

測

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. To measure (water deepness)
  2. To weigh

測 • (cheuk) (hangeul 측, revised cheuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŭk, Yale chuk)

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測: Hán Nôm readings: trắc

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