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Translingual

Han character

(radical 113 +3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火弓中 (IFNL), four-corner 37227)

  1. pray
  2. numerous, ample, abundant
  3. a Chinese surname

References

  • KangXi: page 840, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24634
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2385, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7941

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡle, *ɢljils
*ɡril, *kljilʔ
*ŋɡril, *ɡʷren
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*li

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (30) (23)
Final () (15) (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiɪ/ /t͡ɕˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡi/ /t͡ɕᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɪ/ /t͡ɕiɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gi/ /cjiX/
Li
Rong
/ɡi/ /t͡ɕjiX/
Wang
Li
/ɡi/ /t͡ɕiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi/ /t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gij › ‹ gij ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]rij/ /*[ɡ]rə[j]/
English (place name) great, numerous

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 11599 11601
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡril/ /*kljilʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 宋祁
  • 王原祁
  • 盛暑祁寒
  • 祁劇祁剧
  • 祁奚之舉祁奚之举
  • 祁奚舉午祁奚举午
  • 祁奚薦仇祁奚荐仇
  • 祁寒
  • 祁寒暑雨
  • 祁寒溽暑
  • 祁山
  • 祁祁
  • 祁紅祁红
  • 祁連山祁连山
  • 祁陽縣祁阳县

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

  • On: (ki), (gi)
  • Kun: おおいに (ooini), さかんに (sakanni), これ (kore)

Korean

Hanja

(gi) (hangeul , revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

()

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