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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 32 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿金土 (TCG), four-corner 44104, composition)

  1. foundation, base

References

  • KangXi: page 231, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5197
  • Dae Jaweon: page 468, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 449, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+57FA

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨ/
Li
Rong
/kiə/
Wang
Li
/kĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ki ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)ə/
English base (n.)

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 # 1/1
No. 9930
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯ/

Etymology 1

Definitions

  1. base

Compounds

Etymology 2

Originally imported from English into Cantonese, then from Cantonese to Mandarin.

Definitions

  1. (slang) gay

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. base
  2. be based on

Readings

Compounds

  • 基本給
  • 基本単位
  • 基本的人権

References

Proper noun

(hiragana もとい, romaji Motoi)

  1. A male given name
  2. A surname.

Noun

Kanji in this term
もと
Grade: 5
kun'yomi

(hiragana もと, romaji moto)

  1. Alternative form of

Korean

Hanja

(gi) (hangeul , revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

()

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