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Translingual

Han character

(radical 37 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月女戈大 (BVIK), four-corner 20430, composition ⿱⿱)

References

  • KangXi: page 252, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5930
  • Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 541, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+595A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰraːs, *qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
*ɡreː
*ɡreː
*ɡreː, *ɡeː
*keː
*keː
谿 *kʰeː
*kʰeː
*kʰeː
*kʰeː
*kʰeː, *ɡeː
*kʰeː
*ɡeː
*ɡeː
*ɡeː, *ɡeːʔ
*ɡeː
*ɡeː
*ɡeː
*ɡeː
*ɡeː, *ɡeːs
*ɡeː
*ɡeːs

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕi⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕi²¹/
Jinan /ɕi²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕi²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕi²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕi²¹/
Xining /ɕi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕi⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕi⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕi⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕi⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕi⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕi²⁴/
Hefei /sz̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ɕi³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi⁵³/
/ɦi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕi³³/
Xiangtan /ɕi³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐi²¹/
Nanning /hɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /hɐi²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /he³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hie⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hi²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɛj/
Li
Rong
/ɣei/
Wang
Li
/ɣiei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hej › ‹ hej ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤe/ (dial. for 何 *[ɡ]ˤaj?) /*[ɡ]ˤe/
English why, what slave, servant

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. 13364
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡeː/
Notes

Definitions

  1. where? what? how? why?
  2. servant
  3. the Xi (Kumo Xi) people

Compounds

  • 奚兒奚儿
  • 奚凌
  • 奚奴
  • 奚琴 (xīqín)
  • 奚由
  • 奚自
  • 奚若
  • 奚落
  • 奚隸奚隶
  • 小奚奴
  • 庫莫奚库莫奚
  • 祁奚之舉祁奚之举
  • 祁奚舉午祁奚举午
  • 祁奚薦仇祁奚荐仇
  • 迷奚

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hề)

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