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Translingual

Han character

(radical 149 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜女人 (YRYVO), four-corner 00682, composition)

  1. should, ought to, need to

References

  • KangXi: page 1158, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35445
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1624, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3970, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8A72

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *ɡɯː
*kɯː, *krɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *ɡrɯːʔ
*kɯː
*kɯː
*kɯː, *kʰɯː, *ɡɯːʔ, *ɡrɯːʔ
*kɯː
*kɯːʔ, *ɡɯː
*kʰɯː
*kʰɯːʔ
*kʰɯːɡs, *qraːds
*ŋɡɯːɡs
*ŋɡɯːɡs
*qʰɯː, *ɡɯː
*ɡɯː
*ɡɯːʔ
*ɡɯːɡs, *kʰrɯːɡs, *ɡɯːɡ
*krɯː
*kʰrɯːɡs
*ɡrɯː
*ɡrɯːʔ
*kʰɯːɡ
*qɯːɡ
*ɡuːd, *ɡrɯːɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kai⁵⁵/
Harbin /kai⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kai²¹/
Jinan /kɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /kɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kai²⁴/
Xi'an /kai²¹/
Xining /kɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kɛ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kɛ³¹/
Ürümqi /kai⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kai⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kai⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kai⁵⁵/
Kunming /kæ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kae³¹/
Hefei /ke̞²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kai¹¹/
Pingyao /kæ¹³/
Hohhot /kɛ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ke⁵³/
Suzhou /ke̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ke̞³³/
Wenzhou /ke³³/
Hui Shexian /kɛ³¹/
Tunxi /kuə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kai³³/
Xiangtan /kai³³/
Gan Nanchang /kai⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /koi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /koi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɔi⁵³/
Nanning /kɔi⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɔi⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kai⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kai⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kai⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kai³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kai²³/

Verb

  1. should, to have to

Determiner

  1. (literary) the aforementioned

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hae) (hangeul , revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae, Yale hay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cai, cơi)

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