席

席 U+5E2D, 席 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E2D ← 帬 [U+5E2C] CJK Unified Ideographs 帮 → [U+5E2E]

席 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿中月 (ITLB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广⿱廿巾)

• 𠻊, 𭏖, 𫟊, 𥔷, 褯, 𫏛, 𬋗, 𢅺, 蓆, 𥱊

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 332, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8926
• Dae Jaweon: page 638, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 741, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E2D

simp. and trad.		席

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaːɡ) : phonetic 石 (OC *djaɡ) + semantic 巾 (“cloth”). In the small seal script 石 has corrupted into ⿸广廿. Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : abbreviated phonetic 庶 (OC *hljaɡs) + semantic 巾. In the variant 𠩛, 石 corrupted into 厂 instead.

Compare 度 (OC *daːɡs, *daːɡ) and 庶 (OC *hljaɡs).

Etymology unclear. Various theories have been proposed:

• Wang (1982) relates this to 藉 (OC *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ), 蒩 (OC *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa), 薦 (OC *ʔseːns).
• Schuessler (2007), reconstructing this word minimally as *s-lak, relates this word to 莽 (OC *mlaʔ, *mlaŋʔ, “grass”).
• Baxter and Sagart (2014) derive it from a root *tak (“to place”), with circumstantial noun prefix *s-, literally “place for putting things”.

席

1. seat
2. food of a banquet
3. Classifier for conversations.
4. Classifier for seats (members) in a meeting.
5. a surname

Others:

• → Vietnamese: tiệc

For pronunciation and definitions of 席 – see 蓆 (“woven mat made of bamboo strips or grass”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 蓆).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

• “席”, 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–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. seat
2. mat
3. location

• Go-on: じゃく (jaku)
• Kan-on: せき (seki, Jōyō)
• Kun: むしろ (mushiro, 席)

Kanji in this term
席
せき Grade: 4
on'yomi

• (Tokyo) せき [séꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [se̞kʲi]

席(せき) • (seki) 

1. seat
2. meeting place; venue
3. position; status

Kanji in this term
席
むしろ Grade: 4
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 席 – see the following entry.

【筵むしろ】H [noun] [from 720] a generic term for a woven mat made out of soft rush, bamboo, straw, or cattail [noun] [from 1170] a seat; also used in public environments [noun] [from 1603] a bed [noun] (regional, Nagasaki, Kumamoto) a tatami mat Alternative spellings 蓆, 莚 【筵もしろ】H [noun] (dialectal, Tōhoku, Ishikawa, Izumo) Nonstandard form of むしろ (mushiro) above Alternative spellings 蓆, 莚

(This term, 席, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰʌ̹k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [석]

Wikisource

席 (eumhun 자리 석 (jari seok))

1. hanja form^? of 석 (“seat”)

席: Hán Nôm readings: tiệc, tịch

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