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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火大一口 (VFKMR), four-corner 24921, composition)

  1. fine, thin silk
  2. elegant, beautiful

References

  • KangXi: page 928, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27586
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1365, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3411, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7DBA

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kral, *ɡral
*kral
*kral, *kralʔ
*kral
*kral, *kralʔ, *kʰrals
*kral, *kralʔ, *kʰral
*kral
*kralʔ, *kʰral
*krals
*krals, *ɡralʔ
*kʰral, *qral
*kʰral, *ɡɯl
*kʰral, *kʰralʔ
*kʰral, *kʰralʔ, *ɡral, *ɡɯl
*kʰralʔ
*kʰralʔ
*ɡral, *ɡrals
*ɡral
*ɡral
*ɡral, *ɡralʔ, *ŋɡralʔ
*ɡrals, *qralʔ, *qrals
*ŋɡralʔ
*qral
*qral, *qralʔ
*qral, *qralʔ
*qral, *qralʔ
*qral, *qrals
*qral
*qral
*qralʔ, *qrals

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰjiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/kʰjeX/
Wang
Li
/kʰǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjeX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʰ(r)a[j]ʔ/
English patterned silk

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. 9992
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰralʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 插金披綺插金披绮
  • 泰綺絲泰绮丝
  • 清綺清绮
  • 煥綺焕绮
  • 珠翠羅綺珠翠罗绮
  • 紈綺纨绮
  • 紈綺年纨绮年
  • 綠綺绿绮
  • 綺井绮井
  • 綺媚绮媚
  • 綺室绮室 (qǐshì)
  • 綺年绮年
  • 綺年玉貌绮年玉貌
  • 綺思绮思 (qǐsī)
  • 綺情绮情
  • 綺疏绮疏
  • 綺窗绮窗
  • 綺紈之歲绮纨之岁
  • 綺縞绮缟
  • 綺繡绮绣
  • 綺羅绮罗 (qǐluó)
  • 綺羅粉黛绮罗粉黛
  • 綺羅香绮罗香
  • 綺襦紈褲绮襦纨裤
  • 綺語绮语
  • 綺錢绮钱
  • 綺陌绮陌
  • 綺靡绮靡
  • 綺麗绮丽 (qǐlì)
  • 羅綺罗绮
  • 膏粱紈綺膏粱纨绮
  • 餘霞成綺余霞成绮

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gi) (hangeul , revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khỉ, ỷ, khởi)

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