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Translingual

Han character

(radical 195 +10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火十心日 (NFJPA), four-corner 24361)

References

  • KangXi: page 1476, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46400
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 42
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4704, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+9C2D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kiː, *kʰiːʔ
*ŋɡiːs
*ŋɡiːs, *kji
*klje
*kji
*kji, *kjis
*kjiʔ
*kjiʔ
*kjiʔ
*ɡjis
*qʰlji
*ɡri
*ɡri
*ɡri
*ɡri

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gi/
Li
Rong
/ɡi/
Wang
Li
/ɡi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gij ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]rij/
English dorsal fin of a fish

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. 17331
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡri/

Definitions

  1. fin, flipper

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana ひれ, romaji hire)

  1. fin (of a fish)

Korean

Hanja

(gi) (hangeul )

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