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U+5439, 吹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5439

[U+5438]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+543A]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO), four-corner 67082, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 179, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3373
  • Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 593, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5439

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰjol, *kʰjols
*kʰjol
*qʰral, *qʰel

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (mouth) +  (blow).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (24) (24)
Final () (12) (12)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰiuᴇ/ /t͡ɕʰiuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰʷiɛ/ /t͡ɕʰʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰjuɛ/ /t͡ɕʰjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰwiə̆/ /cʰwiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiue/ /t͡ɕʰiueH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰǐwe/ /t͡ɕʰǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰwie̯/ /t͡ɕʰwie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chuī chuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chuī chuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhwe › ‹ tsyhweH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰo[r]/ /*tʰo[r]-s/
English blow (v.) musical concert

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1653 1655
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰjol/ /*kʰjols/

Definitions

  1. to blow
  2. to puff
  3. to brag, boast
  4. to play (a wind instrument)
    口琴   chuī kǒuqín   to play the harmonica

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. To blow (such as an instrument)

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(chwi) (hangeul , revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(xuy, xi, xơi, xoe, xôi, xuê, xuý, xùi, , xỉ, xua, xuề, xuế, xuể, xui, xủi, xuôi)

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