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寄

寄

寄 U+5BC4, 寄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BC4
← 寃
[U+5BC3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寅 →
[U+5BC5]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

寄 (radical 40 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十大一口 (JKMR), four-corner 30621, composition ⿱宀奇)

  1. send, transmit, mail
  2. rely on

References

  • KangXi: page 288, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7203
  • Dae Jaweon: page 569, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 937, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5BC4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 寄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
奇 *kral, *ɡral
畸 *kral
剞 *kral, *kralʔ
羇 *kral
掎 *kral, *kralʔ, *kʰrals
攲 *kral, *kralʔ, *kʰral
躸 *kral
踦 *kralʔ, *kʰral
寄 *krals
徛 *krals, *ɡralʔ
欹 *kʰral, *qral
崎 *kʰral, *ɡɯl
觭 *kʰral, *kʰralʔ
碕 *kʰral, *kʰralʔ, *ɡral, *ɡɯl
綺 *kʰralʔ
婍 *kʰralʔ
騎 *ɡral, *ɡrals
琦 *ɡral
鵸 *ɡral
錡 *ɡral, *ɡralʔ, *ŋɡralʔ
輢 *ɡrals, *qralʔ, *qrals
齮 *ŋɡralʔ
犄 *qral
猗 *qral, *qralʔ
椅 *qral, *qralʔ
旖 *qral, *qralʔ
陭 *qral, *qrals
檹 *qral
漪 *qral
倚 *qralʔ, *qrals

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 寄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居義切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /kjeH/
Wang
Li		 /kǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[k](r)aj-s/
English entrust to

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 寄
Reading # 1/1
No. 9984
Phonetic
component		 奇
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 寄
Old
Chinese		 /*krals/

Verb

寄

  1. to send through the mail; to post

References

Japanese

Kanji

寄

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to contribute, to donate
  2. to call on
  3. to lodge at somebody else's house
  4. to be dependent on somebody
  5. to increase, to gain
  6. to draw near
  7. to send away

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

寄 (kí, gửi, ké, kẹ, ký)

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