Translingual

Han character

鍵 (radical 167 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金弓大手 (CNKQ), four-corner 8514₀, composition ⿰金建)

References

• KangXi: page 1315, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40654
• Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4225, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9375

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ) : semantic 金 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 建 ‎(OC *kans) – a metal key.

Pronunciation

Definitions

鍵

1. ^†door bolt, lock bolt
2. key (in electronic devices)
3. to type

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ごん (gon)
• Kan’on: けん (ken)
• Kun: かぎ (kagi)

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) かぎ​ [kàgíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡ̃i]

Noun

鍵 ‎(hiragana かぎ, romaji kagi)

1. key (tool for opening or locking something)
2. key; clue (important fact for solving something)
3. lock

鍵 ‎(hiragana けん, romaji ken)

1. (computing) key
2. (music) key

Derived terms

• 鍵盤 (けんばん) ‎(kenban): keyboard
• 白鍵 (はっけん) ‎(hakken): white key
• 黒鍵 (こっけん) ‎(kokken): black key

See also

• 錠 (じょう) ‎(jō)

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
2. ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

鍵 • ‎(geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn, Yale ken)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍵 (kiện)

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