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級

級

See also: 级

Translingual

Han character

級 (radical 120 糸+4 in Chinese, 糸+3 in Japanese, in Chinese 10 strokes, in Japanese 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火弓竹水 (VFNHE), four-corner 27947, composition ⿰糹及)

References

  • KangXi: page 918, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3366, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7D1A

Chinese

trad. 級
simp. 级

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 級
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (及) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
趿 *sqʰɯːb
鈒 *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰrɯb
靸 *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰaːb
馺 *sqʰɯːb
砐 *ŋɡɯːb
魥 *ŋɡɯːb, *kʰab
扱 *skʰrɯːb
笈 *skʰrɯːb, *ɡrab, *ɡab, *ɡrɯb
衱 *ɡrab, *kab
极 *ɡrab, *ɡab
昅 *ɡab
雭 *sqʰrɯb
急 *krɯb
級 *krɯb
汲 *krɯb
芨 *krɯb
伋 *krɯb
彶 *krɯb
及 *ɡrɯb
岌 *ŋɡrɯb
吸 *qʰrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯb) : semantic 糹 ‎(“thread”) + phonetic 及 ‎(OC *ɡrɯb).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 級
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 緝 (142)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居立切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjip̚/
Li
Rong		 /kjəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 級
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k(r)əp/
English degree, grade

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 級
Reading # 1/1
No. 5659
Phonetic
component		 及
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 急
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯb/

Noun

級

  1. level, rank, class
  2. grade

Compounds

Classifier

級

  1. (archaic) a measure word for human heads

References

Japanese

Etymology

kipu → kiɸu → *kiwu → kiu → kyuː.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kjuː]

Noun

級 ‎(hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū, historical hiragana きふ)

  1. rank
  2. (school) a class

Kanji

級

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 進級 (しんきゅう, ​shinkyū)
  • 等級 (とうきゅう, ​tōkyū)
  • 階級 (かいきゅう, ​kaikyū)
  • 下級 (かきゅう, ​kakyū)
  • 上級 (じょうきゅう, ​jōkyū)
  • 同級生 (どうきゅうせい, ​dōkyūsei)
  • 高級 (こうきゅう, ​kōkyū)
  • 比較級 (ひかくきゅう, ​hikakukyū)
  • 最上級 (さいじょうきゅう, ​saijōkyū)
  • 級数 (きゅうすう, ​kyūsū)
  • 等差級数 (とうさきゅうすう, ​tōsakyūsū)
  • 調和級数 (ちょうわきゅうすう, ​chōwakyūsū)
  • 収束級数 (しゅうそくきゅうすう, ​shūsokukyūsū)
  • 等比級数 (とうひきゅうすう, ​tōhikyūsū)
  • 無限級数 (むげんきゅうすう, ​mugenkyūsū)

Korean

Hanja

級 • ‎(geup)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 급 (revised: geup, McCune-Reischauer: kŭp, Yale: kup)
  • Name (hangeul): 등급 (revised: deunggeup, McCune-Reischauer: dŭnggŭp)
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

級 (cấp, cóp, khớp, cụp, khởi)

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