# 籥

| 籥 | U+7C65, &#31845; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C65 |
| ← 籤 [U+7C64] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 籦 → [U+7C66] |

## Translingual
### Han character

籥 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹人一月 (HOMB), four-corner 8822$_7$, composition ⿱𥫗龠)

#### Derived characters

* 𤅰, 𨈋, 𪛒, 𥤖, 𪛔, 𥸤, 籲

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 905, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26771
* Dae Jaweon: page 1330, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3032, character 12
* Unihan data for U+7C65

## Chinese

* 籥

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 讑 | *lowɢs |
| 籲 | *los |
| 爚 | *hljowɢ, *lowɢ |
| 禴 | *lowɢ |
| 蘥 | *lowɢ |
| 鑰 | *lowɢ |
| 瀹 | *lowɢ |
| 龠 | *lowɢ |
| 籥 | *lowɢ |
| 鸙 | *lowɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lowɢ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 龠 (OC *lowɢ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yuè (yue$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): joek$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): io̍k
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yuè
*** Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yuè
*** Wade–Giles: yüeh$^4$
*** Yale: ywè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh
*** Palladius: юэ (jue)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɥɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: joek$^6$
*** Yale: yeuhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: joek$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yêg$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jœːk̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
*** Tâi-lô: io̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iok
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iɔk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔk̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /iɔk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔk̚⁴/
* Middle Chinese: yak
Rime :
| Character | 籥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 藥 (107) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 以灼切 |
| Baxter | yak |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jɨɐk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiɐk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /iɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jɨak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /iak̚/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭak̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯ak̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yuè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | joek$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lewk/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lowɢ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 籥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yuè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yak › |
| Old Chinese | /*lewk/ |
| English | flute; key; tube |
| 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 | 籥 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16351 |
| Phonetic component | 龠 |
| Rime group | 藥 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 藥 |
| Old Chinese | /*lowɢ/ |

### Definitions

籥
* (archaic) an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute with three or six fingerholes, used in Confucian ritual music and dance
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Zuǒ shǒu zhí yào, yòu shǒu bǐng dí. [Pinyin]
    I grasp a flute with my left hand; I hold a pheasant's feather in my right hand.
* (literary) lock and key
    Synonym: 鎖鑰／锁钥 (suǒyuè)
* (archaic) erasable bamboo strips used by children to practice writing

### Compounds

* 橐籥
* 管籥

### Synonyms

* 龠

### References

* “籥”, 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–
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03294

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* three-holed flute

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): やく (yaku)
* Kun: ふえ (fue)

## Korean
### Hanja

籥 (eum 약 (yak))
* hanja form of 약 (“an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute of Chinese origin with three fingerholes used today only in Confucian ritual music and dance in South Korea”)