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Translingual

Han character

(radical 147 +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手人月山山 (QOBUU), four-corner 56010, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1133, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34810
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1600, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3664, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+898F

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (man) +  (see).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (12)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kjuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwiə̆/
Li
Rong
/kiue/
Wang
Li
/kǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guī
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjwie ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷe/
English compass, circle

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. 4604
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
𩓸
Old
Chinese
/*kʷel/
Notes

Definitions

  1. dividers; measuring compass
  2. rule; regulation; customs; law
  3. to plan; to arrange
  4. to advise

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(quy, qui)

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