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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月山弓人大 (BUNOK), four-corner 62034, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 812, character 44
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23532
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2504, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+777D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰʷiːl
*kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
*kʰʷiː
*kʰʷiːl
*kʷilʔ
*ɡʷil
*ɡʷil
*ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
*ɡʷril
*ɡʷril
*ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
*ɡʷilʔ
*ɡʷils
*kʰʷiːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (40)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwei/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷei/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwɛj/
Li
Rong
/kʰuei/
Wang
Li
/kʰiwei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰiwei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuí
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwej ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷʰˤij/
English diverging, extraordinary

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4640
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷiːl/

Definitions

  1. stare
  2. to separate
  3. 38th hexagram of the I Ching

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. staring

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyu) (hangeul , revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

  1. squint, strabismus
  2. stare

Vietnamese

Han character

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References