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窺

窺

See also: 窥

Translingual

Han character

窺 (radical 116 穴+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十金手人山 (JCQOU), four-corner 30516)

  1. peep, watch, spy on, pry

References

  • KangXi: page 868, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1297, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2739, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7ABA

Chinese

trad. 窺
simp. 窥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (規) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嫢 *ɡeːnʔ, *skʷe1, *ɡʷilʔ
規 *kʷel
槻 *kʷel
鬹 *kʷel
摫 *kʷel
瞡 *kʷels, *kʷils
窺 *kʰʷel
闚 *kʰʷel

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 窺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 支 (12)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去隨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰjuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiue/
Wang
Li		 /kʰǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 窺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjwie ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷʰe/
English pry, spy (v.)

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 窺
Reading # 1/1
No. 4609
Phonetic
component		 規
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 闚
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷel/
Notes 同闚

Definitions

窺

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

窺

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

窺 • ‎(gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

窺 (khuy)

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