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戒

戒

Translingual

Han character

戒 (radical 62 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT), four-corner 53400, composition ⿹戈廾)

  1. warn, caution, admonish

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 412, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11548
  • Dae Jaweon: page 754, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1400, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6212

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 戒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戒
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (戒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祴 *kɯː
駴 *ɡrɯːʔ
戒 *krɯːɡs
誡 *krɯːɡs
悈 *krɯːɡs, *kɯɡ
械 *ɡrɯːɡs
裓 *kɯːɡ

戈 ‎(“halberd”) + 廾 ‎(“hands”) – to hold up a weapon as warning.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 戒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古拜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /kɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /kɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kăiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 戒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤrək-s/ (~ kˤrək)
English be on guard

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 戒
Reading # 1/1
No. 6544
Phonetic
component		 戒
Rime
group		 代
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 誡
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯːɡs/

Definitions

戒

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

戒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. commandment

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

戒 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戒 (giới)

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