# 駅

| 駅 | U+99C5, &#39365; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99C5 |
| ← 駄 [U+99C4] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 駆 → [U+99C6] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 驛 |
| Shinjitai | 駅 |
| Simplified | 驿 |

### Han character

駅 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸火尸人 (SFSO), four-corner 7738$_7$, composition ⿰馬尺)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1435, character 21
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44633
* Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 7, page 4545, character 9
* Unihan data for U+99C5

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 駅(えき) (eki).

### Etymology

Read as 驛／驿 (jik6) based on the etymology, as 站 (zaam6) using a semantic reading (訓讀 / 训读 (xùndú)), or as 尺 (cek3) based on the apparent phonetic component (有邊讀邊 / 有边读边 (yǒu biān dú biān)).

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): jik$^6$ / zaam$^6$ / cek$^3$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jik$^6$ / zaam$^6$ / cek$^3$
*** Yale: yihk / jaahm / chek
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jik$^9$ / dzaam$^6$ / tsek$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yig$^6$ / zam$^6$ / cég$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɪk̚²/, /t͡saːm²²/, /t͡sʰɛːk̚³/

### Definitions

駅
* (only used in place names) station
    From: 2014, 陳詩慧, 東角駅
    wo$^4$ nei$^5$ soeng$^1$ joek$^3$ jyu$^1$ dung$^1$ gok$^3$ jik$^6$ gin$^3$ [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 2016, 探索大世界3：國際村的農夫們
    zau$^6$ hou$^2$ ci$^5$ ngo$^5$ dei$^6$ gam$^1$ jat$^6$ heoi$^3$ ge$^3$ dou$^6$ zi$^1$ jik$^6$ nung$^4$ caan$^2$ ban$^2$ si$^5$ coeng$^4$ [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 2016, 【飲食男女】再見了！東京原宿駅
    jat$^1$ ding$^6$ wui$^5$ seon$^6$ sau$^2$ heoi$^3$ jyun$^4$ sau$^3$ zaam$^6$ ciu$^4$ sing$^3$ laa$^1$ [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Usage notes

This character is used in place names in Hong Kong for stylistic effect; it is also used for faithful rendition of Japanese place names.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 駅 |
| Kyūjitai | 驛 |

### Glyph origin

Simplified from 驛 (睪 → 尺).

### Kanji

(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 驛)

#### Readings

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

### Etymology 1

From Chinese 驛 / 驿 (yì, “relay station (a place for changing horses in pre-modern times)”).
* Kanji in this term
* 駅
* えき Grade: 3
* on'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 驛 (kyūjitai)

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) えき [éꜜkì] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [e̞kʲi]
Note: When used as a suffix, the accent falls on the last syllable of the place name.

#### Noun

駅(えき) • (eki)
* station (train, underground/subway)
* (archaic) a government run post-station where officials could get horses, food, lodging

##### Derived terms

* 道(みち)の駅(えき) (michi no eki)
* 海(うみ)の駅(えき) (umi no eki)

##### Compounds

* 駅(えき)員(いん) (ekīn, “station agent”)
* 駅(えき)長(ちょう) (ekichō, “stationmaster”)
* 駅(えき)伝(でん) (ekiden, “long-distance relay race”)
* 駅(えき)前(まえ) (ekimae, “in front of the station”)

##### Descendants

* → Taroko: eki
* → Atayal: eki'

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 駅
* えき > いき Grade: 3
* on'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 驛 (kyūjitai)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ikʲi]

#### Noun

駅(いき) • (iki)
* (dialect, Ibaraki) station (train, underground/subway)

### References

* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN