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Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰɯːds, *qʰɯds
*qʰrɯl
*kɯl, *ɡɯl, *kuːls
*kʰɯds
*kʰɯds, *qʰɯds
*kʰɯds
*qʰɯds
*qʰɯds
*qʰɯds
*qʰɯds
*qʰɯds
*qʰɯds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰɯds) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *kʰɯds).

Han character

(radical 85 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水人一弓 (EOMN), four-corner 38117, composition)

  1. steam, vapor, gas

References

  • KangXi: page 609, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17177
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1566, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6C7D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10139
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰɯds/

Definitions

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Derived terms

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. steam

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gi, heul) (hangeul , 흘, revised gi, heul, McCune-Reischauer ki, hŭl, Yale ki, hul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khí)

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