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軸 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十中田 (JJLW), four-corner 55060, composition ⿰車由)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1242, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1718, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3520, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8EF8
trad. 軸
simp. 轴
Old Chinese
袖 *ljɯwɢs
岫 *ljɯwɢs
牰 *ljɯwɢs, *lɯwɢs
抽 *l̥ʰɯw
妯 *l̥ʰɯw, *l'ɯwɢ
紬 *l'ɯw
怞 *l'ɯw
鮋 *l'ɯw, *ɦljɯw, *lɯw
菗 *rlɯw
宙 *l'ɯwɢs
胄 *l'ɯwɢs
冑 *l'ɯwɢs
伷 *l'ɯwɢs
駎 *l'ɯwɢs
油 *lɯw, *lɯwɢs
由 *lɯw
蚰 *lɯw
秞 *lɯw
邮 *lɯw
釉 *lɯwɢs
柚 *lɯwɢs, *l'ɯwɢ
鼬 *lɯwɢs
苖 *l'ɯːwɢ, *l̥ʰɯwɢ
笛 *l'ɯːwɢ
迪 *l'ɯːwɢ
頔 *l'ɯːwɢ
軸 *l'ɯwɢ
舳 *l'ɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯwɢ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 車 (“cart, carriage”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw, “to pass through”) — the axle that passes through a cartwheel.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Note:

  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • te̍k - vernacular (“large, oblong banner of silk”);
    • tia̍k - vernacular;
    • tio̍k - literary (“large, oblong banner of silk (Zhangzhou)”).
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 軸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhóu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drjuwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lruk/
English wheel-axle

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 軸
Reading # 1/1
No. 15541
Phonetic
component 		由
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		逐
Old
Chinese 		/*l'ɯwɢ/

軸

  1. axle; axletree
  2. pivot
  3. axis
  4. spool; roller
  5. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew) large, oblong banner of silk carrying an appropriate message (usually for funerals) (Classifier: 幅 mn mn-t)
  6. switch (of a keyboard key)
    See also: 鍵軸
    Cherry MX軸／Cherry MX轴  ―  Cherry MX zhóu  ―  Cherry MX switch
  7. Classifier for rolled-up things.

Dialectal synonyms of 幛子 (“oblong banner of silk carrying a message”) [map]

軸

  1. (theater, opera) last item on a theatrical performance

軸

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. axis
  2. pivot
Kanji in this term
軸
じく
Grade: S
on'yomi

Derived from Middle Chinese 軸 (MC drjuwk).

軸(じく) • (jiku) ←ぢく (diku)?

  1. axis
    片足(かたあし)を軸(じく)にして回(まわ)る
    kataashi o jiku ni shite mawaru
    to spin on one foot
    (literally, “to spin with one foot as an axis”)

軸(じく) • (-jiku) ←ぢく (-diku)?

  1. things wrapped about a central rod- scrolls, rolls of material, also yarn balls
  2. central axes
  3. favoured horses
  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

軸 • (chuk) (hangeul 축)

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軸: Hán Nôm readings: trục

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