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喙

喙

喙 U+5599, 喙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5599
← 喘
[U+5598] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喚 →
[U+559A]

Translingual

Han character

喙 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓人 (RVNO), four-corner 67032, composition ⿰口彖)

References

  • KangXi: page 198, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3951
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 663, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5599

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠡 *reːlʔ, *rel, *roːl
盠 *reːlʔ, *reːl
彖 *l̥ʰjelʔ, *hljelʔ, *l̥ʰoːns
墬 *l'els
喙 *hlods, *l̥ʰjods
餯 *hlods
剶 *ʔslon, *l̥ʰon
猭 *l̥ʰon, *l̥ʰons
鶨 *l̥ʰons, *l'uːns
椽 *l'on
篆 *l'onʔ
瑑 *l'onʔ
堟 *l'onʔ
蝝 *lon
緣 *lon, *lons
櫞 *lon
掾 *lons
褖 *l̥ʰoːns
湪 *l̥ʰoːns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 廢 (28)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許穢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hʉɐiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷiɐiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiuɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /huajH/
Li
Rong		 /xiuɐiH/
Wang
Li		 /xĭwɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯wɐiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喙 喙
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huì huì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwejH › ‹ xjwojH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*t-l̥o[rʔ]-s/ /*l̥o[rʔ]-s/ (W dialect: *l̥- > MC x-)
English snout; to pant snout; to pant

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 喙 喙
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12514 12516
Phonetic
component		 彖 彖
Rime
group		 祭 祭
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 喙
Old
Chinese		 /*hlods/ /*l̥ʰjods/
Notes 許穢切注又切

Definitions

喙

  1. beak; snout
  2. (obsolete or Min) mouth

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 嘴 (“mouth”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 口
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 嘴
Mandarin Beijing 嘴
Taiwan 嘴
Tianjin 嘴
Jinan 嘴
Xi'an 嘴
Wuhan 嘴、嘴巴、嘴巴子
Chengdu 嘴巴
Yangzhou 嘴、嘴巴子
Hefei 嘴
Cantonese Guangzhou 嘴、口
Yangjiang 嘴、口
Gan Nanchang 嘴巴
Hakka Meixian 嘴
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 嘴
Liudui (S. Sixian) 嘴
Hsinchu (Hailu) 嘴
Dongshi (Dabu) 嘴
Zhuolan (Raoping) 嘴
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 嘴
Jin Taiyuan 嘴
Min Bei Jian'ou 喙
Min Dong Fuzhou 喙
Min Nan Quanzhou 喙
Xiamen 喙
Zhangzhou 喙
Taipei 喙
Kaohsiung 喙
Chaozhou 喙
Wu Suzhou 嘴
Wenzhou 嘴、嘴嘴
Xiang Changsha 嘴巴、嘴巴子
Shuangfeng 嘴巴

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

喙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

喙 ‎(hiragana くちばし, romaji kuchibashi)

  1. Alternative form of 嘴

Korean

Hanja

喙 • ‎(hwe) (hangeul 훼, revised hwe, McCune-Reischauer hwe)

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