冊

See also: 册, and 𠕁

冊 U+518A, 冊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518A ← 冉 [U+5189] CJK Unified Ideographs 冋 → [U+518B]

Translingual

Han character

冊 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT) or 難月廿 (XBT), four-corner 7744₀, composition ⿻冂卄 or ⿻𦉫一)

1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №44

Derived characters

• 姍, 柵, 𣧱, 𦙱, 𪑃, 刪, 𠂨, 𣫳, 𣌧, 𭇒, 𮟰
• 珊, 粣, 跚, 銏, 笧 (For all regions except mainland China and Vietnamese Nom characters which contain 册 instead. Exception: Korean 跚 contains 册) - See Han unification

Related characters

• 册 (Variant form used in simplified Chinese and Vietnamese Nom)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 129, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1515
• Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 99, character 5
• Unihan data for U+518A

Chinese

trad.		冊/册
simp.		册
alternative forms		𠕁 𠕋

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 冊 (Classical)
• chheh (Southern Min)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script
Oracle bone script j04541 j04542 j04543 j04544 j04545 j04546 j04547 j04548 j04549 j04550 Bronze inscriptions b02679 b02680 b02681 b02682 b02683 b02684 b02685 b02686 b02687 b02688 b02689 b02690 b02691 b02692 b02693 b02694 b02695 b02696 b02697 b02698 b02699 b02700 b02701 b02702 b02703 b02704 b02705 b02706 b02707 b02708 b02709 b02710 b02711 b02712 b02713 b02714 b02715 b02716 b02717 b02718 b02719 b02720 b02721 b02722 b02723 b02724 b02725 b02726 b02727 b02728 b02729 b02730 b02731 b02732 b02733 b02734 Transcribed ancient scripts L38181 L38182 L38183 L27838 L27839 L27841 L27842 L27843 L27844 L27845 L27846 L27847 L27848 L27849 L27850 L27851
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

	Old Chinese
栅	*sʰraːɡ, *sʰreːɡ, *sraːns
冊	*sʰreːɡ
笧	*sʰreːɡ

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

Pictogram (象形) – bamboo slips strung together. See also 侖 and 典. Similar but unrelated to 龠. The contemporary stylized form 册 is unrelated to 朋.

冊: bamboo slips strung together

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	楚革切
Baxter	tsrheak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰɛk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	che
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cak1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cè
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ](ˁ)rek/
English	tablet, records
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	冊
Reading #	1/1
No.	1167
Phonetic component	册
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	策
Old Chinese	/*sʰreːɡ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cè (ce⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caak³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhak

  (Meixian, Guangdong): cag⁵

• Eastern Min (BUC): cháik / cháh
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ca⁵ / ceh⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chheh / chheeh / seh / chhek / chhiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cêh⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷tshaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cè
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cè
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻê⁴
    • Yale: tsè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tseh
    • Palladius: цэ (cɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: caak³
    • Yale: chaak
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaak⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: cag³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhak
    • Hakka Romanization System: cag^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰak̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: cag⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰak̚¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cháik / cháh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaiʔ²⁴/, /t͡sʰɑʔ²⁴/

Note:

• cháik - literary;
• cháh - vernacular.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ca⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰa²¹/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ceh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ceh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛʔ²/
Note:
• ca5 - vernacular;
• ceh6 - literary.
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheh
    • Tâi-lô: tsheh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zheq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰeʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /t͡sʰeʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheeh
    • Tâi-lô: tsheeh
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɛʔ³²/
    • IPA (Penang): /t͡sʰɛʔ³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangpu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seh
    • Tâi-lô: seh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seq
    • IPA (Zhangpu): /seʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhek
    • Tâi-lô: tshik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zheg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiak
    • Tâi-lô: tshiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiak̚⁵/
Note:
• chheh/chheeh - vernacular (“book; to organize and stack neatly”);
• chhek/chhiak - literary.
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cêh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsheh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰeʔ²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷tshaq
    • MiniDict: tshah^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tshaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰaʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrheak

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ](ˤ)rek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰreːɡ/

Definitions

冊

1. (literary or Southern Min) book
2. volume
3. imperial edict
4. to grant in an imperial edict

   冊立／册立  ―  cèlì  ―  to hold a coronation ceremony

5. Classifier for books.
6. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to organize and stack neatly

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		書
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		書, 書本 collective, 書籍 collective, 書冊
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	書
	Taiwan	書
	Malaysia	書
	Singapore	書
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	書
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	書
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	書
	Wanrong	書
	Xi'an	書
	Xining	書
	Xuzhou	書
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	書
	Lanzhou	書
	Ürümqi	書
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	書, 書些 collective
	Wuhan	書
	Guiyang	書
	Guilin	書
	Liuzhou	書
	Dagudi (Maliba)	書
	Reshuitang (Longling)	書
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	書
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	書
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	書
	Yangzhou	書, 冊子 euphemistic
	Hefei	書
Cantonese	Guangzhou	書
	Hong Kong	書
	Macau	書
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	書
	Taishan	書
	Taishan (Guanghai)	書
	Dongguan	書
	Yangjiang	書
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	書
	Hepu (Shatian)	書
	Beihai	書
	Beihai (Nankang)	書
	Beihai (Yingpan)	書
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	書
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	書
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	書
	Danzhou	書
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	書
	Singapore (Guangfu)	書
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	書
	Móng Cái	書
	Mandalay (Taishan)	書
Gan	Nanchang	書
	Lichuan	書
	Pingxiang	書
Hakka	Meixian	書
	Yudu	書
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	書
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	書
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	書
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	書
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	書
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	書
Huizhou	Jixi	書
Jin	Taiyuan	書
	Xinzhou	書
	Liangcheng	書
Northern Min	Jian'ou	書
	Songxi	書
	Jianyang	書
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	書
	Fuzhou (Changle)	書
	Lianjiang	書
	Fuqing	書
	Yongtai	書
	Minqing	書
	Gutian	書
	Pingnan	書
	Luoyuan	書
	Fu'an	書
	Ningde	書
	Xiapu	書
	Zherong	書
	Shouning	書
	Zhouning	書
	Fuding	書冊, 書
Southern Min	Xiamen	冊, 書冊
	Quanzhou	冊, 書, 書冊
	Jinjiang	冊
	Yongchun	冊, 書
	Zhangzhou	冊
	Zhangpu	冊
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	書
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	書
	Tainan	冊
	Tainan (Anping)	冊
	Penghu (Xiyu)	書
	Penang (Hokkien)	冊
	Singapore (Hokkien)	冊
	Manila (Hokkien)	冊
	Medan (Hokkien)	冊
	Longyan	書冊
	Zhangping	冊
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	冊
	Datian	書
	Chaozhou	書
	Shantou	書, 書冊
	Jieyang	書, 書冊
	Haifeng	冊
	Bangkok (Teochew)	書
	Chiang Mai (Teochew)	書
	Hat Yai (Teochew)	書
	Singapore (Teochew)	書, 冊
	Pontianak (Teochew)	書
	Leizhou	冊
	Wenchang	冊
	Haikou	冊
	Singapore (Hainanese)	冊
Puxian Min	Putian	冊
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	冊
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	冊
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	冊
	Xianyou	冊
	Xianyou (Fengting)	冊
	Xianyou (Youyang)	冊
Central Min	Yong'an	書
	Sanming (Shaxian)	書
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	書
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	書
Wu	Shanghai	書
	Shanghai (Chongming)	書
	Suzhou	書
	Danyang	書
	Hangzhou	書
	Ningbo	書
	Wenzhou	書
	Jinhua	書
Xiang	Changsha	書
	Xiangxiang	書
	Loudi	書
	Shuangfeng	書

Dialectal synonyms of 書 (“book”) [map]

See also

• 書／书 (shū)

Compounds

• 丁口冊／丁口册
• 人手一冊／人手一册
• 兔園冊／兔园册
• 冊亭／册亭 (Min Nan)
• 冊仔／册仔 (Min Nan)
• 冊仔紙／册仔纸 (Min Nan)
• 冊包／册包 (Min Nan)
• 冊命／册命
• 冊囊／册囊 (Min Nan)
• 冊子／册子 (cèzi)
• 冊封／册封 (cèfēng)
• 冊店／册店 (Min Nan)
• 冊府／册府
• 冊府元龜／册府元龟
• 冊庫／册库 (Min Nan)
• 冊房／册房 (Min Nan)
• 冊書／册书
• 冊橐仔／册橐仔 (Min Nan)
• 冊正／册正
• 冊皮／册皮 (Min Nan)
• 冊立／册立 (cèlì)
• 冊籍／册籍
• 冊籤／册签 (Min Nan)
• 冊紙／册纸 (Min Nan)
• 冊葉／册叶 (cèyè)
• 冊頁／册页 (cèyè)
• 分冊／分册 (fēncè)
• 列冊／列册
• 副冊／副册
• 參考冊／参考册 (chham-khó-chheh) (Min Nan)
• 史冊／史册 (shǐcè)
• 古冊／古册 (kó͘-chheh) (Min Nan)
• 名冊／名册 (míngcè)
• 哀冊／哀册
• 四柱冊／四柱册
• 圖冊／图册 (túcè)
• 小冊子／小册子 (xiǎocèzi)
• 尪仔冊／尪仔册 (ang-á-chheh) (Min Nan)
• 帳冊／帐册
• 底冊／底册
• 手冊／手册 (shǒucè)
• 捐冊／捐册
• 教冊／教册 (kà-chheh) (Min Nan)
• 方冊／方册 (fāngcè)
• 旅遊手冊／旅游手册
• 書冊／书册 (shūcè)
• 樣冊子／样册子
• 檔冊／档册
• 清冊／清册
• 照冊／照册 (Zhàocè)
• 留言冊／留言册
• 畫冊／画册 (huàcè)
• 符冊／符册 (fúcè)
• 簡冊／简册 (jiǎncè)
• 簿冊／簿册 (bùcè)
• 紀念冊／纪念册 (jìniàncè)
• 羊冊／羊册 (Yángcè)
• 花名冊／花名册 (huāmíngcè)
• 註冊／注册 (zhùcè)
• 註冊商標／注册商标 (zhùcè shāngbiāo)
• 讀冊／读册 (tha̍k-chheh) (Min Nan)
• 長冊／长册
• 高文典冊／高文典册
• 高文大冊／高文大册
• 魚鱗圖冊／鱼鳞图册
• 黃冊／黄册
• 點名冊／点名册

 

Further reading

• “Entry #1322”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• “冊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	冊
Kyūjitai	册

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 冊

冊

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 册)

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ふみ (fumi, 冊)

Counter

冊(さつ) • (-satsu) 

1. books

   世(せ)界(かい)を変(か)えた10(じゅう)冊(さつ)の本(ほん)

   Sekai o Kaeta Jū-satsu no Hon

   10 Books that Changed the World

References

1. “冊”, in 漢字ぺディア‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 冊 (MC tsrheak).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)	ᄎᆡᆨ〮 (Yale: chóyk)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰɛk̚] ~ [t͡ɕʰe̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [책/첵]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

冊

Wikisource 冊 (eumhun 책 책 (chaek chaek))

1. hanja form^? of 책 (“book”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 책방 (冊房, chaekbang)
• 책상 (冊床, chaeksang)
• 책자 (冊子, chaekja)
• 서책 (書冊, seochaek)
• 공책 (空冊, gongchaek)
• 책력 (冊曆, chaengnyeok)
• 책봉 (冊封, chaekbong)
• 책장 (冊欌, chaekjang)
• 별책 (別冊, byeolchaek)
• 분책 (分冊, bunchaek)
• 책명 (冊名, chaengmyeong)
• 책제 (冊題, chaekje)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

冊: Hán Nôm readings: sách

1. chữ Hán form of sách (“book”).