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几

几

几 U+51E0, 几
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E0
← 凟
[U+51DF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 凡 →
[U+51E1]
See also: 凡, 凢, 儿, and 幾

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

几 (radical 16 几+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓 (HN), four-corner 77210)

  1. Kangxi radical #16, ⼏ ‎(“table”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 133, character 57
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1737
  • Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 275, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+51E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 几
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肌 *kril
飢 *kril
机 *kril, *krilʔ
虮 *kril
几 *krilʔ
麂 *krilʔ

Pictogram (象形) – stool (viewed from the side).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 几
alt. forms 𠀃

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 几
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居履切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiX/
Li
Rong		 /kiX/
Wang
Li		 /kiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 几
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.kr[ə]jʔ/
English stool

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 几
Reading # 1/1
No. 5760
Phonetic
component		 几
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 几
Old
Chinese		 /*krilʔ/

Definitions

几

  1. †stool; chair
  2. long narrow table; bench
  3. small table
    茶几  ―  chájī  ―  tea table
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (几):

Others:

  • Vietnamese: ghế ‎(“chair”)

Compounds

  • 伏几
  • 几几
  • 几席
  • 几杖
  • 几案
  • 几筵
  • 方几
  • 明窗淨几／明窗净几
  • 燕几
  • 窗明几淨／窗明几净
  • 茶几 (chájī)
  • 隱几／隐几
  • 雪窗螢几／雪窗萤几
  • 高几

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 幾 (“how many; some; fine”).
(This character, 几, is the simplified form of 幾.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 人.
(This character, 几, is a variant form of 人.)

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 明.
(This character, 几, is an ancient form of 明.)

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 𠘧.
(This character, 几, is a variant form of 𠘧.)

Japanese

Kanji

几

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. table, table enclosure
  2. table or wind radical

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

几 • ‎(gwe) (hangeul 궤, revised gwe, McCune-Reischauer kwe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

几 (kỉ)

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