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蓋

蓋

See also: 盖

Translingual

Han character

蓋 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿土戈廿 (TGIT), four-corner 44107, composition ⿱艹盍)

  1. cover, hide, protect
  2. (ancient variant of 盍) what? why not?

References

  • KangXi: page 1051, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31652
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1513, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3260, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+84CB

Chinese

trad. 蓋
simp. 盖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蓋 *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb
盖 *kaːbs
溘 *kʰaːbs, *kʰoːb, *kʰaːb
搕 *qoːb
嗑 *kaːb, *ɡaːb
榼 *kʰaːb
磕 *kʰaːb, *kʰaːd
瞌 *kʰaːb
盍 *ɡaːb
闔 *ɡaːb
篕 *ɡaːb
熆 *ɡaːb
鰪 *qaːb
廅 *qaːb
圔 *qroːb
饁 *ɢrab

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蓋 蓋 蓋
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 匣 (33) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 泰 (25) 盍 (144) 盍 (144)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I
Fanqie 古太切 胡臘切 古盍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑiH/ /ɦɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑiH/ /ɦɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑiH/ /ɣɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kajH/ /ɦap̚/ /kap̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɑiH/ /ɣɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɑiH/ /ɣɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑiH/ /ɣɑp̚/ /kɑp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gài hé ge
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蓋 蓋
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gài hé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kajH › ‹ hap ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤap-s/ /*m-[k]ˤap/
English cover (v.); cover (n.) thatch, cover (v.)

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 蓋 蓋 蓋
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 5069 5075 5083
Phonetic
component		 盍 盍 盍
Rime
group		 蓋 盍 盍
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 蓋 䫦 盍
Old
Chinese		 /*kaːbs/ /*kaːb/ /*ɡaːb/

Definitions

蓋

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References

Japanese

Kanji

蓋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蓋 • ‎(gae, hap) (hangeul 개, 합, revised gae, hap, McCune-Reischauer kae, hap, Yale kay, hap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蓋 (cái)

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