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Translingual

Han character

(radical 169 +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.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰʷiːl
*kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
*kʰʷiː
*kʰʷiːl
*kʷilʔ
*ɡʷil
*ɡʷil
*ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
*ɡʷril
*ɡʷril
*ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
*ɡʷilʔ
*ɡʷils
*kʰʷiːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (88)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4657
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷiːd/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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