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Translingual

Han character

(radical 116 +11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十金手人山 (JCQOU), four-corner 30516)

  1. peep, watch, spy on, pry

References

  • KangXi: page 868, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1297, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2739, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7ABA

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡeːnʔ, *skʷe1, *ɡʷilʔ
*kʷel
*kʷel
*kʷel
*kʷel
*kʷels, *kʷils
*kʰʷel
*kʰʷel

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (12)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰjuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwiə̆/
Li
Rong
/kʰiue/
Wang
Li
/kʰǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuī
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjwie ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷʰe/
English pry, spy (v.)

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. 4609
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷel/
Notes

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyu) (hangeul , revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khuy)

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