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桀

桀

Translingual

Han character

桀 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓手木 (NQD), four-corner 25904, composition ⿱舛木)

References

  • KangXi: page 524, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14753
  • Dae Jaweon: page 913, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1203, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6840

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 桀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
桀 *ɡrad
傑 *ɡrad
榤 *ɡrad
嵥 *ɡrad
滐 *ɡrad
搩 *ɡrad
謋 *qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡrad) : phonetic 舛 ‎(OC *tʰjonʔ) + semantic 木 ‎(“wood”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 桀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 薛 (83)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 渠列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡᵚiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /giat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jué
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 桀 桀 桀
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jié jié jié
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjet › ‹ gjet › ‹ kjet ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-[k]<r>at/ /*m-[k]<r>at/ /*[k]<r>at/
English remarkable; hero perch for fowls lift, raise

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 桀
Reading # 1/1
No. 6461
Phonetic
component		 桀
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 傑
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡrad/

Definitions

桀

  1. chicken roost
  2. Jie of Xia, an ancient emperor

Japanese

Kanji

桀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

桀 • ‎(geol) (hangeul 걸, revised geol, McCune-Reischauer kŏl, Yale kel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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