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季
季
See also: 李
Translingual
Han character
季 (radical 39 子+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓木 (HDND), four-corner 20407, composition ⿱禾子)
- youngest brother
- used as a surname
- (figuratively) end of a series
- quarter of a year
- season of the year
References
- KangXi: page 279, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6965
- Dae Jaweon: page 547, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1013, character 5
- Unihan data for U+5B63
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
季 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (季) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 季 | *kʷids |
| 悸 | *ɡʷids |
| 痵 | *ɡʷids |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: chih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gwai3
- Yale: gwai
- Cantonese Pinyin: gwai3
- IPA (key): /kʷɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kùi
- Tâi-lô: kuì
- Phofsit Daibuun: kuix
- IPA (Xiamen): /kui²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kui⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kui²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kui¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kui²¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 季 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | /t͡ɕy⁴²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕi³²⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕi⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡ɕi⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ki⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /kui⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kwɐi³³/ |
| Nanning | /kʷɐi³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kwɐi³³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /kui²¹/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kiɛ²¹²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ky³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰui²¹³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ki³⁵/ /kui³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 季 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 居悸切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kiuɪH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʷiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kjuɪH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kwiH/ |
| Li Rong |
/kuiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/kwiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kwiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
guì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 季 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kjwijH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʷi[t]-s/ |
| English | youngest |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 季 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5832 |
| Phonetic component |
季 |
| Rime group |
至 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
季 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʷids/ |
| Notes | 說文從稚省，王煦雲從𥝌（木曲頭，脂部古兮切）聲 |
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Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
季 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye)
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