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U+5C45, 居
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C45

[U+5C44]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5C46]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 44 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸十口 (SJR), four-corner 77264, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 300, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7663
  • Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 968, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5C45

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːls
*kaːls
*kɯ, *kas
*kaː, *kʰaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
*kaː, *kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːs
*kaːs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
*qʰaː, *ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
*ɡaːʔ
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *kas, *kʰa
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *ɡa
*kas
*kas
*kas
*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯ, *kas) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kaːʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (19) (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨ/ /kɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨ/ /kiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kie/ /kiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨ/ /kɨə̆/
Li
Rong
/kiə/ /kiɔ/
Wang
Li
/kĭə/ /kĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki/ /ki̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjo › ‹ kjo › ‹ kjoH ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)a/ /*ka/ /*k(r)a-s/ (based on rhyme evidence)
English squat; stay, dwell final particle dwelling

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. 4209 4264
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯ/ /*kas/

Definitions

  1. to live; to dwell; to reside
  2. to occupy; to rank
  3. to claim
  4. to stay put
  5. house; residence; dwelling
  6. restaurant

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to sit

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
きょ
Grade: 5
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (kjo).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana きょ, romaji kyo)

  1. residence

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana , romaji i, historical hiragana )

  1. residence
Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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