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馗

馗

Translingual

Han character

馗 (radical 185 首+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大弓廿竹山 (KNTHU), four-corner 48016, composition ⿺九首)

  1. cheekbone
  2. path, road
  3. intersection

References

  • KangXi: page 1428, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44492
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1954, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4501, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9997

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 馗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馗
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尻 *kʰuː
訄 *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓 *qʰruː
鳩 *ku
勼 *ku
九 *kuʔ
究 *kus
仇 *ɡu
鼽 *ɡu
犰 *ɡu
叴 *ɡu
厹 *ɡu
頄 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹 *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏 *ɡu
訅 *ɡu
釚 *ɡu
肍 *ɡu
軌 *kʷrɯwʔ
宄 *kʷrɯwʔ
氿 *kʷrɯwʔ
匭 *kʷrɯwʔ
泦 *kuɡ
旭 *qʰʷoɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 馗 馗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 脂 (18) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 渠追切 巨鳩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡˠiuɪ/ /ɡɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡʷᵚi/ /ɡiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuɪ/ /ɡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gjwi/ /guw/
Li
Rong		 /ɡjui/ /ɡiu/
Wang
Li		 /ɡwi/ /ɡĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gwi/ /gi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuí qiú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gwij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ʷru/
English thoroughfare

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 馗 馗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6952 6963
Phonetic
component		 九 九
Rime
group		 幽 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𧚍 逵
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡu/ /*ɡʷrɯw/
Notes 集韻改渠龜切

Definitions

馗

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Compounds

  • 氣殺鍾馗／气杀钟馗
  • 鍾馗／钟馗
  • 鍾馗嫁妹／钟馗嫁妹

Japanese

Kanji

馗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

馗 • ‎(gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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