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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水日戈山 (EAIU), four-corner 31114)

  1. water, irrigate, flood
  2. wash

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 639, character 11
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1054, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1689, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6E89

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯːds, *kɯds
*kɯːds
*kɯːds
*kɯːds, *qʰɯds
*kʰɯːds
*kʰɯːds
*krɯds
*ɡrɯds, *kɯds, *krɯd
*ɡrɯds, *ɡɯs
*ɡrɯds, *qʰɯds
*kɯds
*kɯds
*kɯds
*kʰɯds
*ɡrad
*kɯd

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gài
Middle
Chinese
‹ kojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤə[t]-s/
English to wash

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 5810 5824
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯːds/ /*kɯds/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 噴灑灌溉喷洒灌溉
  • 沆溉
  • 沾溉
  • 淤溉
  • 灌溉 (guàngài)
  • 灌溉工程
  • 灌溉渠
  • 畦溝灌溉畦沟灌溉
  • 自流灌溉
  • 輪流灌溉轮流灌溉

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gae) (hangeul , revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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