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Translingual

Han character

(radical 106 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心心竹日 (PPHA), four-corner 21601, composition)

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kriːl
*kriːl
*kriːl
*kriːl
*kriːl, *kriːd
*kriːl
*kriːl, *kʰriːlʔ
*kriːl
*kriːl, *ɡriːl
*kriːl, *ɡriːl
*kriːl, *kʰriːlʔ
*kʰriːl
*ɡriːl
*ɡriːl
*ɡriːl

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨj/
Li
Rong
/kɛi/
Wang
Li
/kɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiē
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiē
Middle
Chinese
‹ kɛj ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤrij/
English all

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. 6415
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kriːl/

Noun

  1. (literary) all, every, everybody

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana みな, romaji mina) (alternative reading hiragana みんな, romaji minna)

  1. everyone; everybody

Synonyms


Korean

Hanja

(gae) (hangeul , revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(giai)

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