隻

隻 (radical 172, 隹+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人土水 (OGE) or X人土水 (XOGE), four-corner 2040₇, composition ⿱隹又)

• KangXi: page 1364, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1867, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4090, character 10
• Unihan data for U+96BB

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 隹 (“bird”) + 又 (“hand”).

To hold one bird is 隻; to hold two birds is 雙.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tjak ~ g-t(j)ik (“one”).

隻

1. Classifier for one of a pair. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   ⇒ 對

   一隻鞋，一對鞋 / 一只鞋，一对鞋  ―  yī zhī xié, yī duì xié  ―  one shoe, one pair of shoes

2. Classifier for certain animals, boats and containers. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   一隻貓 / 一只猫  ―  yī zhī māo  ―  a cat

3. one bird
4. single
5. alone
6. unique

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• On (unclassified): せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひとつ (hitotsu, 隻つ)

隻 (hiragana せき, rōmaji -seki)

1. boats or ships

   一隻 (いっせき)

   isseki

   one ship

2. one of two, one of a pair
3. birds, fish, or arrows

隻 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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隻 (chiếc, chếch, chệch, chích, xếch, xệch, chỉ)

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