驛

See also: 駅 and 驿

驛	U+9A5B, 驛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A5B

← 驚
[U+9A5A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

驜 →
[U+9A5C]

Translingual

Traditional	驛
Shinjitai	駅
Simplified	驿

Han character

驛 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田中十 (SFWLJ), four-corner 7634₁, composition ⿰馬睪)

Derived characters

㶠

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1446, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45030
Dae Jaweon: page 1971, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4579, character 19
Unihan data for U+9A5B

Chinese

trad.		驛
simp.		驿
alternative forms		𩦯

Wikipedia has articles on:

驛站 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
Yam (route) (English)

Wikipedia has an article on:

驛牌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 驛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
斁	ʔl'aːɡs, l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
籜	*l̥ʰaːɡ
蘀	*l̥ʰaːɡ
鐸	*l'aːɡ
凙	*l'aːɡ
襗	l'aːɡ, rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
擇	*rlaːɡ
澤	*rlaːɡ
鸅	*rlaːɡ
蠌	*rlaːɡ
檡	rlaːɡ, hljaɡ
釋	*hljaɡ
繹	*laːɡ
睪	neb, laːɡ, *kuː
譯	*laːɡ
嶧	*laːɡ
懌	*laːɡ
驛	*laːɡ
醳	*laːɡ
圛	*laːɡ
墿	*laːɡ
燡	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laːɡ) : semantic 馬 (“horse”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Etymology

Same word as 繹 (OC *laːɡ, “to unravel”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Alternatively, Blažek and Schwarz (2017) suggest that this is perhaps a loan from a hypothetical Tocharian compound *klyælylyæ-yäkwæ (“standing of horses”), but this seems to be highly speculative.

The Taiwanese Hokkien sense is an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 駅(えき) (eki).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): jik⁶

(Taishan, Wiktionary): yet⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yi̍t

(Meixian, Guangdong): yid⁶
Northern Min (KCR): ĭ
Eastern Min (BUC): iăh / ĭk
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ia̍h / e̍k / ia̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): iah⁸
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸yiq

Mandarin
- (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
  - Yale: yihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: yet⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jet̚³²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: id
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)id
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚⁵/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: iăh / ĭk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iaʔ⁵/, /iʔ⁵/

Note:

iăh - vernacular;
ĭk - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iah
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iaʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʔ¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
  - Tâi-lô: i̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚²⁴/

Note:

ia̍h - vernacular;
e̍k/ia̍k - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: iah⁸
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ia̍h
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /iaʔ⁴/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁸yiq
  - MiniDict: yih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: yek

Rime
Character	驛
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*lAk/

(Zhengzhang): /*laːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	驛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ yek ›
Old Chinese	/*lAk/
English	post-horse
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	驛
Reading #	1/1
No.	15141
Phonetic component	睪
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繹
Old Chinese	/*laːɡ/

Definitions

驛

posthorse
relay station (for posting horses)
(Taiwanese Hokkien) train station, bus stop, or similar

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (驛):

→ Japanese: 駅(えき) (eki, “station”)
→ Korean: 역(驛) (yeok, “station”)

References

“驛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	駅
Kyūjitai	驛

Kanji

驛

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 駅)

Readings

Go-on: やく (yaku)
Kan-on: えき (eki)
Kun: うまや (umaya, 驛)

Kanji in this term
驛
えき Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

驛(えき) • (eki)

Kyūjitai form of 駅: station (train, underground/subway)

Korean

Hanja

驛 (eum 역 (yeok))

Noun

驛 • (yeok) (hangeul 역)

hanja form^? of 역 (“(railway, subway) station”)

Vietnamese

Hán tự

驛: Hán Nôm readings: dịch