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Translingual

Han character

(radical 46 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 山十水 (UJE), four-corner 24747, composition)

  1. high
  2. majestic
  3. fork in road

References

  • KangXi: page 308, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7936
  • Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 762, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5C90

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kje
*kje
*kje
*kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
*kje
*kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
*kje
*kjes
*kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
*ɡjes
*qʰjes
*qʰjes, *ɡe
*kre, *ɡreʔ
*kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
*kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
*kʰes, *ɡe
*kʰes
*ɡe
*ɡe
*ɡre, *ɡres
*ɡreʔ
*ɡres
*kʷreʔ, *kʷres
*kʷreʔ
*kʰʷeʔ
*ɡreɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/giə̆/
Li
Rong
/ɡie/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17220
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡe/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 千岐萬轍千岐万辙
  • 岐伯
  • 岐周
  • 岐婆
  • 岐山
  • 岐山縣岐山县
  • 岐嶷
  • 岐路
  • 岐黃岐黄
  • 走岐路
  • 路岐
  • 路岐人

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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