# 陟

| 陟 | U+965F, &#38495; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-965F |
| ← 陞 [U+965E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 陠 → [U+9660] |

## Translingual
### Han character

陟 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中卜中竹 (NLYLH), four-corner 7122$_1$, composition ⿰阝步)

#### Derived characters

* 騭(骘)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1351, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41659
* Dae Jaweon: page 1853, character 27
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4131, character 1
* Unihan data for U+965F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 陟
* Western Zhou
* Bronze inscriptions
| | Old Chinese |
| 陟 | *tɯɡ |
| 騭 | *tjiɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 阝 (“mound; hill; raised ground”) + 步 (“step; two feet pointing upwards”). Cf. 降 (jiàng), with two feet pointing downwards.

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-t(j)ak (“to climb; to ascend”) (STEDT). Compare 登 (OC *tɯːŋ) (Wang, 1923) < *s-tjaŋ, as well as Burmese တက် (tak, “to climb up, get in a vehicle”); see the latter for more cognates.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhì (zhi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zik$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
*** Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^4$
*** Yale: jr̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zik$^1$
*** Yale: jīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɪk̚⁵/
* Middle Chinese: trik
Rime :
| Character | 陟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 知 (9) |
| Final (韻) | 職 (134) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 竹力切 |
| Baxter | trik |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʈɨk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈɨk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȶiek̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈik̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ȶiək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ȶĭək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ȶi̯ək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zik$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*trək/
    (Zhengzhang): /*tɯɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 陟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ trik › |
| Old Chinese | /*trək/ |
| English | ascend |
| 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 | 陟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17386 |
| Phonetic component | 陟 |
| Rime group | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 陟 |
| Old Chinese | /*tɯɡ/ |

### Definitions

陟
* (literary) to climb; to ascend
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Zhì bǐ qǐ xī, zhān wàng mǔ xī. [Pinyin]
    I ascend that bare hill, And look towards my mother.
* (archaic, euphemistic, of a monarch) to die; to ascend to heaven
    From: Bamboo Annals, circa 475 – 221 BCE
    Shí'èr nián, Wáng zhì. [Pinyin]
    In the twelfth year (of his reign), the King ascended.
* (literary) to promote
    陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否 ― zhìfázāngpǐ ― to reward good people and to punish bad people

### Compounds

* 武陟 (Wǔzhì)
* 考績黜陟／考绩黜陟
* 陟屺
* 陟岵
* 陟岵瞻望
* 陟岵陟屺
* 陟方
* 陟罰／陟罚 (zhìfá)
* 陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否 (zhìfázāngpǐ)
* 陟降
* 陟黜
* 韋陟朵雲／韦陟朵云
* 黜陟
* 黜陟幽明

### References

* “陟”, 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
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* climb
* rise

#### Readings

* Go-on: ちき (chiki)
* Kan-on: ちょく (choku)
* Kan’yō-on: とく (toku)
* Kun: のぼる (noboru, 陟る)、すすむ (susumu, 陟む)
* Nanori: たかし (takashi)、のぼる (noboru)

## Korean
### Hanja

陟 • (cheok) (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)
* climb, scale, ascend
* proceed

## Vietnamese
### Han character

陟: Hán Nôm readings: trắc
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