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橘

橘

Translingual

Han character

橘 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木弓竹月 (DNHB), four-corner 47927, composition ⿰木矞)

References

  • KangXi: page 553, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15551
  • Dae Jaweon: page 942, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1297, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6A58

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 橘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 橘
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (矞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瞲 *qʰʷilʔ, *qʰʷids, *qʰʷiːd
璚 *ɡʷeŋ
劀 *kʷriːd, *kʷreːd
鱊 *kʷriːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
譎 *kʷiːd
潏 *kʷiːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
鐍 *kʷiːd
憰 *kʷiːd
噊 *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
驈 *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
橘 *kʷid
繘 *kʷid, *ɢʷid
獝 *qʰʷid
燏 *ɢʷid
遹 *ɢʷid
鷸 *ɢʷid
矞 *ɢʷid
霱 *ɢʷid

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 橘
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕy⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕy²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕy¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiu²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕyʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕyəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕyəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕioʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕyɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕyʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕyn²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕyʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kit̚¹/
Taoyuan /kit̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwɐt̚⁵/
Nanning /kɐt̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kwɐt̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kut̚³²/
/kiat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kik̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kit̚⁵/
Rime
Character 橘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 術 (52)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居聿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiuɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjuet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwit̚/
Li
Rong		 /kiuĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭuĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯uĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ju
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 橘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjwit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s.k]ʷi[t]/
English orange (tangerine?)

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 橘
Reading # 1/1
No. 16015
Phonetic
component		 矞
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 橘
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷid/

Definitions

橘

  1. tangerine

See also

Compounds

  • 千頭橘奴／千头橘奴
  • 南橘北枳
  • 懷橘／怀橘
  • 柑橘 (gānjú)
  • 橘井
  • 橘化為枳／橘化为枳
  • 橘奴
  • 橘頌／橘颂
  • 橘餅／橘饼
  • 橘黃／橘黄
  • 福橘
  • 蜜橘
  • 越橘
  • 金橘 (jīnjú)

Japanese

Kanji

橘

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
橘
たちばな
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

橘 ‎(hiragana たちばな, katakana タチバナ, romaji tachibana)

  1. Citrus tachibana, a species of wild, green, inedible citrus fruit native to Japan

Proper noun

橘 ‎(hiragana たちばな, romaji Tachibana)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

橘 • ‎(gyul) (hangeul 귤, revised gyul, McCune-Reischauer kyul, Yale kyul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

橘 (quất, quít, quầng, quắt)

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