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葵

葵

Translingual

Han character

葵 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓人大 (TNOK), four-corner 44430, composition ⿱艹癸)

  1. sunflower
  2. measure

References

  • KangXi: page 1046, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31458
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3258, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8475

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 葵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (癸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
睽 *kʰʷiːl
湀 *kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
聧 *kʰʷiː
藈 *kʰʷiːl
癸 *kʷilʔ
葵 *ɡʷil
鄈 *ɡʷil
楑 *ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
戣 *ɡʷril
鍨 *ɡʷril
騤 *ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
揆 *ɡʷilʔ
猤 *ɡʷils
闋 *kʰʷiːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷil) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass, plant”) + phonetic 癸 ‎(OC *kʷilʔ) – a kind of plant.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 葵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠隹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡʷi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡjuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gwi/
Li
Rong		 /ɡui/
Wang
Li		 /ɡwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 葵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjwij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷij/
English mallow

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 葵
Reading # 1/1
No. 4646
Phonetic
component		 癸
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 葵
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷil/
Notes 原重渠追切依切三王韻改

Definitions

葵

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Compounds

  • 向日葵 (xiàngrìkuí)
  • 天竺葵
  • 憂葵／忧葵
  • 扇葉蒲葵／扇叶蒲葵
  • 拔葵
  • 拔葵去織／拔葵去织
  • 拔葵啖棗／拔葵啖枣
  • 洛神葵
  • 海葵
  • 茙葵
  • 菟葵
  • 落葵 (luòkuí)
  • 葵傾／葵倾
  • 葵扇
  • 葵花 (kuíhuā)
  • 葵花子
  • 葵藿
  • 蒲葵 (púkuí)
  • 蒲葵扇
  • 蔠葵
  • 蜀葵 (shǔkuí)
  • 錦葵／锦葵
  • 露葵
  • 魯女憂葵／鲁女忧葵
  • 鳧葵／凫葵
  • 龍葵／龙葵

Japanese

Kanji

葵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
葵
あおい
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

葵 ‎(hiragana あおい, romaji aoi, historical hiragana あふひ)

  1. hollyhock

Proper noun

葵 ‎(hiragana あおい, romaji Aoi)

  1. A male or female given name

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

葵 • ‎(gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

葵 (quỳ)

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