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祇

祇

Translingual

Han character

祇 (radical 113 示+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火竹女心 (IFHVP), four-corner 32240, composition ⿰礻氏)

  1. only, merely, but
  2. indigenous god, earth-spirit
  3. peace

References

  • KangXi: page 840, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24639
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2389, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7947

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 祇

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨支切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /giə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ɡie/
Wang
Li		 /ɡǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjie ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k.d]e/ (dialect: *k.d- > *ɡ.d- > *ɡ-, no palatalization)
English earth spirit

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 祇
Reading # 1/1
No. 11526
Phonetic
component		 氏
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 祇
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡe/

Definitions

祇

  1. earth spirit
  2. big
  3. to be relieved; to feel at ease
  4. this

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 祇 – see 只.
(This character, 祇, is a variant form of 只.)

Japanese

Kanji

祇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

  • On: き (ki), ぎ (gi), し (shi)
  • Kun: くにつかみ (kunitsukami), ただ (tada), まさに (masani)

Korean

Hanja

祇 • ‎(gi, ji) (hangeul 기, 지, revised gi, ji, McCune-Reischauer ki, chi, Yale ki, ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祇 (kì, chỉ)

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