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冀

冀

冀 U+5180, 冀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5180
← 兿
[U+517F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冁 →
[U+5181]

Translingual

Han character

冀 (radical 12 八+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中心田廿金 (LPWTC), four-corner 11801, composition ⿱北異)

  1. hope for
  2. to wish
  3. Hebei province (abbreviation)

References

  • KangXi: page 128, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1500
  • Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 253, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5180

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 冀

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 几利切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjiH/
Li
Rong		 /kjiH/
Wang
Li		 /kiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]rə[t]-s/ (dial. < *[k]rək-s ?)
English hope

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 冀
Reading # 1/1
No. 5852
Phonetic
component		 冀
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 冀
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯls/

Definitions

冀

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Japanese

Kanji

冀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: き (ki)
  • Kun: こいねがう (koinegau), こいねがわ (koinegawa)

Compounds

  • 冀願 (きがん) ‎(kigan): wish
  • 冀幸 (きこう) ‎(kikō)
  • 冀馬 (きば) ‎(kiba)
  • 冀望 (きぼう) ‎(kibō)
  • 冀北 (きほく) ‎(kihoku)

Korean

Hanja

冀 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冀 (kí)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 冀
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Bronze inscriptions

b12627

b12628
Large seal script

L20221

L20222

L20223

L20224

L20225

L35864

L35865

L20215

L20216

L20217

L20218

L20219

L20220
Small seal script

s05950
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 (冀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冀 *krɯls
驥 *krɯls
懻 *krɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯls) : semantic 北 + phonetic 異 ‎(OC *lɯɡs).

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