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Translingual

Han character

(radical 76 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜人弓人 (YONO), four-corner 07882, composition)

  1. (variant of ) to cough
  2. sound of laughter

References

  • KangXi: page 567, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16061
  • Dae Jaweon: page 955, character 37
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2139, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6B2C

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



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (34) (29)
Final () (29) (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠaiH/ /kʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚaiH/ /kʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔaiH/ /kʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔaɨjsH/ /kʰəjH/
Li
Rong
/ʔaiH/ /kʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/æiH/ /kʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔaiH/ /kʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kài
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. 4820 4839
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰɯːɡs/ /*qraːds/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. cough
  2. sound of laughter

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. to cough

Vietnamese

Han character

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References