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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水人一日 (EOMA), four-corner 38166)

  1. irrigation ditch, trench
  2. river

References

  • KangXi: page 653, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18405
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1063, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1761, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6FAE

Chinese

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simp.

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (26)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwajH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑiH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuài
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwajH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤop-s/
English watering channel, drain

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 # 1/1
No. 5501
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːbs/

Definitions

  1. field ditch.

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (26)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwajH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑiH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuài
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwajH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤop-s/
English watering channel, drain

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 # 1/1
No. 5501
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːbs/

Definitions

  1. the huihe river.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hoe) (hangeul , revised hoe, McCune-Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(quái, gội, hói, khoái)

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