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彗
彗
See also: 篲
Translingual
Han character
彗 (radical 58 彐+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手十尸一 (QJSM), four-corner 55174, composition ⿱⿰丰丰彐)
Derived terms
References
- KangXi: page 362, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9927
- Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 31
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 961, character 10
- Unihan data for U+5F57
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
彗 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (彗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 櫘 | *sqʰʷeds |
| 彗 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids |
| 篲 | *sɢʷeds |
| 鏏 | *sɢʷeds |
| 槥 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds |
| 轊 | *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds |
| 熭 | *ɢʷeds, *ɢʷad |
| 嘒 | *qʰʷeːds |
| 暳 | *qʰʷeːds |
| 嚖 | *qʰʷeds |
| 慧 | *ɡʷeːds |
| 蔧 | *sɢʷids |
| 雪 | *sqʰʷed |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids) : 甡 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – to hold a broom which is made of bamboo.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: hui4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
- IPA (key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seoi6, wai6
- Yale: seuih, waih
- Cantonese Pinyin: soey6, wai6
- IPA (key): /sɵy̯²²/, /wɐi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūi
- Tâi-lô: huī
- Phofsit Daibuun: hui
- IPA (Xiamen): /hui²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /hui³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 彗 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /xuei⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /xuei⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /xuei⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /xuei²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /xue⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /xuei³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /xuei⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /xuɨ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /xuei¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /xuei¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /xuei²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /xuei³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /xuei¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /xuei²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /xuei²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /xuəi⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /xue⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /xuei⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | ||
| Hohhot | /xuei⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦue²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦue̞³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦui¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /vu²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /xue²²/ |
| Tunxi | /xuə⁴²/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /fei⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɸəi⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /fi⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /fui⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /wɐi²²/ |
| Nanning | /wɐi²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /wɐi²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/sui²²/ /hui²²/ 俗 |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /suɔi²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xy⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hui³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hui³⁵/ |
| Rime | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 彗 | 彗 | 彗 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) | 云 (35) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) | 祭 (38) | 祭 (36) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | Chongniu III | III |
| Fanqie | 徐醉切 | 于歲切 | 祥歲切 |
| Reconstructions | |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ziuɪH/ | /ɦˠiuᴇiH/ | /ziuᴇiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/zʷiH/ | /ɦʷᵚieiH/ | /zʷiɛiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/zjuɪH/ | /ɣiuæiH/ | /ziuæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/zwiH/ | /ɦjwiajH/ | /zwiajH/ |
| Li Rong |
/zuiH/ | /ɣjuɛiH/ | /ziuɛiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/zwiH/ | /ɣĭwɛiH/ | /zĭwɛiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/zwiH/ | /i̯wɛiH/ | /zi̯wɛiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
suì | wèi | suì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 彗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
huì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ zjwejH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*s-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-s/ |
| English | broom; comet |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 彗 | 彗 | 彗 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 5462 | 5467 | 5475 |
| Phonetic component |
彗 | 彗 | 彗 |
| Rime group |
祭 | 祭 | 至 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 | 2 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
篲 | 衞 | 遂 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sɢʷeds/ | /*ɢʷeds/ | /*sɢʷids/ |
Definitions
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Japanese
Kanji
彗
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
彗 • (hye, se) (hangeul 혜, 세, revised hye, se, McCune-Reischauer hye, se, Yale hyey, sey)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: tuệ
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