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U+54B3, 咳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B3

[U+54B2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+54B4]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口卜女人 (RYVO), four-corner 60082, composition)

  1. cough

References

  • KangXi: page 187, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3555
  • Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 622, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+54B3

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *ɡɯː
*kɯː, *krɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *ɡrɯːʔ
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *kʰɯː, *ɡɯːʔ, *ɡrɯːʔ
*kɯː
*kɯːʔ, *ɡɯː
*kʰɯː
*kʰɯːʔ
*kʰɯːɡs, *qraːds
*ŋɡɯːɡs
*ŋɡɯːɡs
*qʰɯː, *ɡɯː
*ɡɯː
*ɡɯːʔ
*ɡɯːɡs, *kʰrɯːɡs, *ɡɯːɡ
*krɯː
*kʰrɯːɡs
*ɡrɯː
*ɡrɯːʔ
*kʰɯːɡ
*qɯːɡ
*ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ

Pronunciation

Note: This character is used as a substitute for Min Nan ka/kha, which may be etymologically unrelated.



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəj/
Li
Rong
/ɣᴀi/
Wang
Li
/ɣɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hái
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kài
Middle
Chinese
‹ khojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰˤək-s/
English cough

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 4823 4825
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰɯː/ /*ɡɯː/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana せき, romaji seki)

  1. a cough
     (せき) ()
    seki ga deru
    I have a cough.

Korean

Hanja

(hae) (hangeul , revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cay, hãy, hỡi, khái, gay, gây)

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