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綮

Translingual

Han character

綮 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹大女戈火 (HKVIF) or 戈大女戈火 (IKVIF), four-corner 3890₃)

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References

KangXi: page 927, character 16

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27569

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3421, character 2

Unihan data for U+7DAE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		綮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (啓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
啓	*kʰeːʔ
啟	*kʰeːʔ
棨	*kʰeːʔ
綮	*kʰeːʔ
晵	kʰeːʔ, kʰens
闙	*kʰeːʔ
启	*kʰeːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰeːʔ) : phonetic 𢼄 + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): qǐ, qìng (qi³, qing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ, ㄑㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kai², hing³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: qǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ
  - Wade-Giles: ch'ih³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chii
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: qìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ch'ing⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinq
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kai², hing³
  - Yale: kái, hing
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kai², hing³
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰɐi̯³⁵/, /hɪŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /kʰei^X/▼

Rime
Character	綮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	康禮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰei^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰei^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɛi^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɛj^X/
Li Rong	/kʰei^X/
Wang Li	/kʰiei^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiei^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qǐ

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	綮
Reading #	1/1
No.	10131
Phonetic component	啓
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	啓
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːʔ/

Definitions

綮

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Japanese

Kanji

綮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: きょう (kyō), け (ke)

Kan’on: けい (kei)

Kun: はたじるし (hatajirushi), むすびめ (musubime)

Korean

Hanja

綮 • ‎(gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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