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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 149 +2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜口十 (YRJ), four-corner 04600, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1147, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35220
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1613, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3937, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8A08

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (say) +  (all).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕi²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕi³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕji²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕi¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sz̩⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕi³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ki⁵³/
Taoyuan /ke⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐi³³/
Nanning /kɐi³³/
Hong Kong /kɐi³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ke²¹/
/ki²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ki³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /koi²¹³/
/ki²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ki³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/keiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛjH/
Li
Rong
/keiH/
Wang
Li
/kieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤij-s/
English calculate

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. 5835
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kiːds/

Definitions

  1. to calculate; to count
  2. to amount to
  3. (usually in the negative) to consider; to be concerned with
  4. to plan; to plot
  5. plan; plot; scheme
  6. stratagem
  7. gauge

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

(hiragana けい, romaji kei)

  1. plan, total

Readings

Compounds

Suffix

(hiragana けい, romaji -kei)

  1. -meter (measuring device)

Korean

Hanja

(gye) (hangeul , revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(kế, kể, , kẻ, , kẽ)

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