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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹弓 (OIHN), four-corner 87710, composition)

  1. hungry
  2. a famine

References

  • KangXi: page 1416, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44023
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1940, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4441, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+98E2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ki/
Shao
Rongfen
/kjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ki/
Li
Rong
/ki/
Wang
Li
/ki/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kij ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.k<r>ə[j]/
English hungry

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. 5757
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kril/

Noun

  1. hunger, starving
  2. Alternative spelling of

Derived terms

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, ki)

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