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己

己

See also: 已 and 巳

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

己 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU), four-corner 17717)

  1. Kangxi radical #49, ⼰ ‎(“oneself”).

Derived terms

  • Index:Chinese radical/己
  • 包 (Japanese form)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 326, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8742
  • Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 983, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5DF1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 己

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 己
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (己) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
改 *klɯːʔ
跽 *ɡrɯʔ
己 *kɯʔ
紀 *kɯʔ
妀 *kɯʔ
記 *kɯs
杞 *kʰɯʔ
屺 *kʰɯʔ
芑 *kʰɯʔ
邔 *kʰɯʔ, *ɡɯs
玘 *kʰɯʔ
忌 *ɡɯs
鵋 *ɡɯs
誋 *ɡɯs
梞 *ɡɯs

Pictogram (象形) – silk road for binding objects. Original form of 紀 (OC *kɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 己
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨX/
Li
Rong		 /kiəX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 己 己
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐ jǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kiX › ‹ kiX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k(r)əʔ/ /*k(r)əʔ/
English 6th heavenly stem self

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 己
Reading # 1/1
No. 5765
Phonetic
component		 己
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯʔ/

Definitions

己

  1. self; oneself
  2. personal; private
  3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

己

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. I (male)

Readings

Derived terms

  • 己に克つ

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

己 (kỷ, kỉ, anh)

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