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Translingual

Han character

(radical 149 +12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 卜口女戈戈 (YRVII), four-corner 02653)

References

  • KangXi: page 1181, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35958
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1644, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4022, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8B4F

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl, *kɯls
*kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯl
*kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl
*kɯlʔ
*ɡɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯl) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (20)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨi/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨi/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨj/
Li
Rong
/kiəi/
Wang
Li
/kĭəi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ke̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5789
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯl/

Definitions

  1. to ridicule; to jeer; to mock
  2. to interrogate

Compounds

  • 冷譏熱嘲冷讥热嘲
  • 反脣相譏反唇相讥 (fǎnchún-xiāngjī)
  • 捷譏捷讥
  • 誓泉之譏誓泉之讥
  • 譏刺讥刺
  • 譏呵讥呵
  • 譏嘲讥嘲
  • 譏察讥察

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gi) (hangeul , revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ky, )

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