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慨

慨

Translingual

Han character

慨 (radical 61 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心日戈山 (PAIU), four-corner 91014, composition ⿰忄既)

  1. sigh, regret
  2. generous

References

  • KangXi: page 399, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11122
  • Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2331, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6168

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
溉 *kɯːds, *kɯds
槩 *kɯːds
概 *kɯːds
摡 *kɯːds, *qʰɯds
慨 *kʰɯːds
嘅 *kʰɯːds
穊 *krɯds
暨 *ɡrɯds, *kɯds, *krɯd
鱀 *ɡrɯds, *ɡɯs
塈 *ɡrɯds, *qʰɯds
既 *kɯds
旡 *kɯds
蔇 *kɯds
炁 *kʰɯds
櫭 *ɡrad
曁 *kɯd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦蓋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰəjH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khojH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤə[t]-s/
English disappointed

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 慨
Reading # 1/1
No. 5814
Phonetic
component		 旡
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 磕
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰɯːds/

Definitions

慨

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Compounds

  • 悲歌慷慨
  • 感慨 (gǎnkǎi)
  • 感慨萬千／感慨万千
  • 慨允
  • 慨嘆／慨叹
  • 慨恨
  • 慨想
  • 慨慨
  • 慨憤／慨愤
  • 慨歎／慨叹
  • 慨然 (kǎirán)
  • 慨然允諾／慨然允诺
  • 慨然應允／慨然应允
  • 慨然領諾／慨然领诺
  • 慷慨 (kāngkǎi)
  • 慷慨仗義／慷慨仗义
  • 慷慨悲歌
  • 慷慨捐生
  • 慷慨擔承／慷慨担承
  • 慷慨激昂
  • 慷慨激烈
  • 慷慨解囊
  • 慷慨赴義／慷慨赴义
  • 慷慨陳詞／慷慨陈词
  • 憤慨／愤慨 (fènkǎi)
  • 激昂慷慨
  • 軫慨／轸慨

References

Japanese

Kanji

慨

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. rue, lament, be sad
  2. sigh

Readings

Korean

Hanja

慨 • ‎(gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慨 (khái, khới)

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