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記

記

See also: 记

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

記 (radical 149 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口尸山 (YRSU), four-corner 07617, composition ⿰言己)

References

  • KangXi: page 1149, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35244
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1615, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3943, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8A18

Chinese

trad. 記
simp. 记

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 記
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (己) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
改 *klɯːʔ
跽 *ɡrɯʔ
己 *kɯʔ
紀 *kɯʔ
妀 *kɯʔ
記 *kɯs
杞 *kʰɯʔ
屺 *kʰɯʔ
芑 *kʰɯʔ
邔 *kʰɯʔ, *ɡɯs
玘 *kʰɯʔ
忌 *ɡɯs
鵋 *ɡɯs
誋 *ɡɯs
梞 *ɡɯs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 記
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨH/
Li
Rong		 /kiəH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 記
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kiH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s/
English remember; record (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 記
Reading # 1/1
No. 5768
Phonetic
component		 己
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 記
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯs/

Definitions

記

  1. to record; to mark; to note
  2. to keep in mind; remember
  3. record; chronicle

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

記

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. statement (often used as a heading in letters, notices and other documents)
  2. inscription
  3. mention
  4. describe
  5. mark

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

記 ‎(hiragana き, romaji -ki)

  1. chronicle

Korean

Hanja

記 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

記 (kí, ghi, ký)

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