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期

期

See also: 朞

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

期 (radical 74 月+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金月 (TCB), four-corner 47820, composition ⿰其月)

References

  • KangXi: page 506, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14378
  • Dae Jaweon: page 887, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2083, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+671F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 期
alt. forms
 
㫷
其
朞
稘
𠔸
𡢁
𣅆
𣇳
𣍠
𣍡
𣍣
𣔔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 期
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
基 *kɯ
箕 *kɯ
朞 *kɯ
稘 *kɯ
萁 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
期 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅 *kɯ, *ɡɯs
其 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆 *kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺 *kʰɯ
娸 *kʰɯ
魌 *kʰɯ
僛 *kʰɯ
唭 *kʰɯs
棋 *ɡɯ
旗 *ɡɯ
淇 *ɡɯ
祺 *ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪 *ɡɯ
騏 *ɡɯ
綦 *ɡɯ
麒 *ɡɯ
蜞 *ɡɯ
綨 *ɡɯ
蜝 *ɡɯ
棊 *ɡɯ
碁 *ɡɯ
鯕 *ɡɯ
踑 *ɡɯ
藄 *ɡɯ
櫀 *ɡɯ
璂 *ɡɯ
禥 *ɡɯ
惎 *ɡɯs
帺 *ɡɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ) : phonetic 其 ‎(OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ) + semantic 月 ‎(“moon”) – changing moon marks the passage of time, hence a period of time.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 期
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiə/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 期
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gi ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ](r)ə/
English period of time

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 期
Reading # 2/2
No. 9949
Phonetic
component		 其
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 其
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡɯ/

Definitions

期

  1. † to arrange a time; to engage; to arrange to meet
  2. † to meet; to gather
  3. † to hope; to wish; to expect
  4. †predetermined time; scheduled time
  5. †date; specific day
  6. period of time; stage
  7. Classifier for periods of time or stages of a project.
  8. †time limit
  9. †good fortune; chance

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 期
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨ/
Li
Rong		 /kiə/
Wang
Li		 /kĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 期
Reading # 1/2
No. 9935
Phonetic
component		 其
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 姬
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯ/
Notes 集韻稘注或體

Definitions

期

  1. †one-year anniversary
  2. (historical) one-year mourning (garment) for the death of a senior family member

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

期

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. period
  2. time
  3. date
  4. term

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
期
き
Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Sinitic.

Suffix

期 ‎(hiragana き, romaji -ki)

  1. period (of time)
    反抗 (はんこう)期 (き)
    hankōki
    rebellious phase
  2. (television show) season
    「進撃 (しんげき)の巨人 (きょじん)」の二 (に)期 (き)
    “Shingeki no Kyojin” no niki
    the second season of Attack on Titan
See also

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

期 (kì, kề, kỳ)

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