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拮

拮

Translingual

Han character

拮 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手土口 (QGR), four-corner 54061, composition ⿰扌吉)

  1. laboring hard, occupied
  2. pursue

References

  • KangXi: page 427, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11990
  • Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1866, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+62EE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (吉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
秸 *kriːl, *kriːd
髻 *kiːds
夡 *kʰids
鴶 *kriːd
袺 *kriːd, *kiːd
頡 *kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼 *kʰriːd
硈 *kʰriːd
咭 *kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠 *ɡriːd
聐 *ŋreːd
趌 *ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結 *kiːd
拮 *kiːd, *klid
桔 *kiːd
狤 *kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷 *qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭 *ɡiːd
翓 *ɡiːd
纈 *ɡiːd
吉 *klid
郆 *kid
詰 *kʰid
蛣 *kʰid
佶 *ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚 *ɡrid
姞 *ɡrid
欯 *qʰlid
恄 *qʰlid

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 拮 拮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 質 (48) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 居質切 古屑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪt̚/ /ket̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kit̚/ /ket̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjet̚/ /kɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kit̚/ /kɛt̚/
Li
Rong		 /kiĕt̚/ /ket̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕt̚/ /kiet̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ĕt̚/ /kiet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji jie
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jié
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ket ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤi[t]/
English grasp (v.)

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 拮 拮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5682 5695
Phonetic
component		 吉 吉
Rime
group		 質 質
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 結 吉
Old
Chinese		 /*kiːd/ /*klid/

Definitions

拮

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Compounds

  • 拮花

References

Japanese

Kanji

拮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

拮 • ‎(gil, gyeol) (hangeul 길, 결, revised gil, gyeol, McCune-Reischauer kil, kyŏl, Yale kil, kyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拮 (cất, cắt, gặt, gật, kiết, két, kít)

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