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U+4F0E, 伎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F0E

[U+4F0D]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4F0F]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人十水 (OJE), four-corner 24247, composition)

  1. talent, skill, ability

References

  • KangXi: page 95, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 202, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 119, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4F0E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kje
*kje
*kje
*kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
*kje
*kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
*kje
*kjes
*kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
*ɡjes
*qʰjes
*qʰjes, *ɡe
*kre, *ɡreʔ
*kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
*kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
*kʰes, *ɡe
*kʰes
*ɡe
*ɡe
*ɡre, *ɡres
*ɡreʔ
*ɡres
*kʷreʔ, *kʷres
*kʷreʔ
*kʰʷeʔ
*ɡreɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (30) (30) (23)
Final () (11) (13) (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () III Chongniu III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiᴇ/ /ɡˠiᴇX/ /t͡ɕiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɛ/ /ɡᵚiɛX/ /t͡ɕiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɛ/ /ɡiɛX/ /t͡ɕjɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/giə̆/ /gjiə̆X/ /ciə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ɡie/ /ɡjeX/ /t͡ɕieH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐe/ /ɡǐeX/ /t͡ɕǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gie̯/ /gie̯X/ /t͡ɕie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjeX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]reʔ/
English skill

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 17208 17227 17231
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kjes/ /*ɡe/ /*ɡreʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. deed

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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