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Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional 机/

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kril
*kril
*kril, *krilʔ
*kril
*krilʔ
*krilʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kril, *krilʔ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *krilʔ).

Also Simplified from ().

Han character

(radical 75 +2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓 (DHN), four-corner 47910, composition)

References


Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (15) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiɪ/ /kiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ki/ /kiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kjɪ/ /kjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ki/ /kiX/
Li
Rong
/ki/ /kiX/
Wang
Li
/ki/ /kiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki/ /kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*krəjʔ/
English small table, stool

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. 5758 5761
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kril/ /*krilʔ/

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (, “small table; stool”).
  2. alder
  3. A surname.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. chopping board

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. desk, table

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana つくえ, romaji tsukue)

  1. desk; table

Korean

Hanja

(gwe) (hangeul , revised gwe, McCune-Reischauer kwe, Yale kwey)

  1. desk

Vietnamese

Han character

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