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闋

闋

See also: 阕

Translingual

Han character

闋 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓弓人大 (ANNOK), four-corner 77431)

  1. cease, end, exhaust, stop
  2. word, turn, gap

References

  • KangXi: page 1339, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41430
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4311, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+95CB

Chinese

trad. 闋
simp. 阕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (癸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
睽 *kʰʷiːl
湀 *kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
聧 *kʰʷiː
藈 *kʰʷiːl
癸 *kʷilʔ
葵 *ɡʷil
鄈 *ɡʷil
楑 *ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
戣 *ɡʷril
鍨 *ɡʷril
騤 *ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
揆 *ɡʷilʔ
猤 *ɡʷils
闋 *kʰʷiːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 闋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 屑 (88)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 苦穴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰwet̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰʷet̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuet̚/
Wang
Li		 /kʰiwet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰiwet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 que
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 闋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 què
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷʰˤi[t]/
English finish, end

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 闋
Reading # 1/1
No. 4657
Phonetic
component		 癸
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 闋
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰʷiːd/

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闋

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Japanese

Kanji

闋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

闋 • ‎(gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune-Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

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