駅

See also: 驛 and 驿
駅 U+99C5, 駅
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 77387, 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

simp. and trad.
駅
Usage of 駅 in Hong Kong along with a superscript gloss of 站 (zhàn).

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


Definitions

駅

  1. (only used in place names) station

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

駅

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 驛)

Readings

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

Note: When used as a suffix, the accent falls on the last syllable of the place name.[2]

Noun

駅(えき) • (eki) 

  1. station (train, underground/subway)
Derived terms
Compounds
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(key): [ikʲi]

Noun

駅(いき) • (iki) 

  1. (dialect, Ibaraki) station (train, underground/subway)

References

  1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  2. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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